Wiktionary
autocrine
a. (context biology English) (''of a hormone, neuropeptide...'' or ''about its effect or action'') That acts on the cell that produced it.
Usage examples of "autocrine".
And we know the circuitry and the autocrine perturbations to try, or we know which gene activity perturbations to try that will cause that cell to differentiate into a normal cell type or cause that cell to commit hara-kiri.