INTRACELLULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intracellular mean? 

• INTRACELLULAR (adjective)
  The adjective INTRACELLULAR has 1 sense:

1. located or occurring within a cell or cells

  Familiarity information: INTRACELLULAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRACELLULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Located or occurring within a cell or cells

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

intracellular fluid

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Antonym:

extracellular (located or occurring outside a cell or cells)

Pertainym:

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

 Context examples 

Melanin synthesis takes place within specialized intracellular organelles named melanosomes.

(Melanogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This class of proteins resides in cellular or intracellular membranes.

(Membrane Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The protease-activated receptors PAR1 and PAR4 are cleaved by the protease thrombin, releasing a tethered peptide ligand that activates the receptor and triggers intracellular calcium release.

(Aspirin Inhibition of Platelet Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Increased intracellular cAMP levels cause relaxation of bronchial smooth muscle and lead to an inhibition of release of inflammatory mediators from mast cells.

(Arformoterol Tartrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Apaziquone is converted to active metabolites in hypoxic cells by intracellular reductases, which are present in greater amounts in hypoxic tumor cells.

(Apaziquone, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers studied how roundworms (C. elegans) regulate expression of genes that are turned on by infection with microsporidia, which are natural intracellular pathogens of worms as well as humans.

(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

After intracellular uptake, mericitabine is phosphorylated into two active triphosphate metabolites, which disable HCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (non-structural protein 5B; NS5B) upon binding.

(Mericitabine, NCI Thesaurus)

Target proteins are monoubiquitinated on one or more lysine residues, which serve as a signal for intracellular sorting as well as endocytosis of cell-surface proteins.

(Monoubiquitination, NCI Thesaurus)

Protein products of neuropeptide genes are intracellular messengers that function as neurotransmitters or hormones

(Neuropeptide Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Increased intracellular Ca2+ binds to calmodulin (CaM) and activates calcineurin (CaN).

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)