Daniel's OCAT Redux

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Across
  1. 5. This might have killed a lesser man, alas Chari is unsinkable
  2. 7. I show up again and again. Create or terminate those great endocrine messenger. Will they stress, regulate, be sexy, just wait, only I can tell
  3. 9. Rigid and upright, the backbone of our society. Always there, unlike their induced sibling
  4. 10. Yeah sorry, I'm literally why stress flows through your veins
  5. 12. A good AChE is what you need to turn me out, you won't get your Acetyl-CoA back, but now you've got me
  6. 13. The body's estrogen delivery service. All across the map. Want estrogen? Give 19A1 a call. They've got the monopoly
  7. 14. A name of riches, I saw two and thought why not three?
  8. 16. Hi, I'm a millennial! I'm very social! I love talking to hormones and neuropeptides! I'll make sure all of the immune system knows what I have to say!
  9. 17. Not a serpentine type, but named after the one that blocks me, don't go harvesting tobacco because that can target me
  10. 19. Don't let anything push a fang into you, else you might find this thing blocking your neuromuscular junction
  11. 20. The type of stress you'd get from having to write OCATs and NOCATs on alternating weeks. Contrary to popular belief not quite "too long, too long."
  12. 22. Were the Greeks great multitaskers? That's where my name comes from isn't it? Anyways, don't have for philosophy, all those extracurriculars and assignments aren't going to work themselves out
  13. 24. I begin it all. Somewhere along the way amino acid gives way to neurotransmitter. One day my descendants will be known by two names depending on which side of the pond
  14. 25. That 20-long chain formed from what actually isn't a spider's acid
Down
  1. 1. In this family tree you'll find everything you need to feel a rush, throw a hit, or sprint
  2. 2. The oft forgot third pathway to noradrenaline termination. Pop a receptor on me, do I ring a bell?
  3. 3. Rings of stability and strength, but scared of water. A frame of sorts. Come on, don't you know me, don't you know me by now?
  4. 4. Run away or stand your ground, either way you've got a long leash after that crucial bundle
  5. 6. Why your set up it's own system for chasing that high. Turns out it's quite necessary to keep us all in balance
  6. 8. Don't want progesterone? That's okay I'm here for you
  7. 11. There's always an AChE when you get to me, long or short after me determines whether you excite or not
  8. 15. This lack of loyalty you'd expect among the steroid community. Prostaglandins!? Turns out it's a big thing over there too
  9. 18. From Japan to Russia you hear this toxic tale of what stops the AChEing. It's a folk tale, it goes by different names, but never mind that the story is all the same
  10. 21. This cell signaling pathway likes to go back to the beginning. Until it finds that THC lasts
  11. 23. A common HO through catabolism will turn me into your body's most stable loose messenger. That successor of mine is oft warned of outside the body, hangs when in your house