Across
- 3. Uninfected scouts patrolling tissues to identify invaders and sound the cytokine alarm.
- 4. Placental imposter that celebrates a baby’s arrival by mimicking the signal for hormone production.
- 5. Diligent housekeeper sweeping calcium back into the sarcoplasmic closet to end the contraction.
- 8. Gastric lead actor using paracrine gossip to trigger the parietal cell's acid rain.
- 12. Second messenger that refuses to calm down once a ribosylating toxin arrives.
- 16. Final survivor count of the drug traveler reaching the systemic city.
- 18. Yellow body steroid acting as a calming neurosteroid for both sexes.
- 20. Industrious kinase that gives energy drinks to muscle climbers once calcium arrives.
Down
- 1. Sulfurous prodrug activated by the very acid it seeks to terminate.
- 2. Specific set of stimulated genes serving as a cookbook for viral defense.
- 6. Bacterial visitor that turns Sutherland's second messenger into a permanent flood.
- 7. Intracellular traffic light where a comma-shaped toxin jams the signal on green.
- 9. Coincidence detector that recruits partners to strengthen memory or process pain.
- 10. Heavy hepatic toll taken before the drug can reach the main circulation.
- 11. Sensory distortion where a gentle touch acts like a noxious stimulus.
- 13. Gastric lead actor that only performs after the acid cuts him down to size.
- 14. Thick filament laborer that demands a phosphate power-up before starting the squeeze.
- 15. Calcium’s indispensable escort required to activate kinases for a cellular squeeze.
- 17. Specific DNA sequence where steroid-receptor dimers bind to alter the genomic script.
- 19. Phosphorylated messenger flying from the JAK signal directly to the genome's library.