OCAT #2 6

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Across
  1. 4. The "celebrity" protein that handles the rate-limiting step of steroid making
  2. 5. The "architectural partner" for b-catenin that helps rebuild the lens into a scar-filled room
  3. 8. The "incoming" neurons that carry the news of a noxious stimulus up to the cord
  4. 9. The "receiver" in the brain that catches the pain signal before it heads to the emotional theater
  5. 10. The "Grandma" of all steroid hormones that researchers find in human pregnancy urine
  6. 11. The "Yam secret" that fueled the birth of the birth control pill industry
  7. 12. The "cellular rope" that gets bundled into stress fibers when signals give the order
  8. 13. The brain's "executive office" where a pain signal finally becomes a conscious thought
  9. 17. The "brake" cells of the stomach that tell everyone to stop making acid
  10. 20. The "inhibitory shusher" that opens chloride gates to keep the nerves from yelling
  11. 21. The chemist who quit root-hunting for sarsaparilla to find lilies with a better steroid yield
  12. 22. The "rebound cloudiness" that happens when leftover cells decide to redecorate the back of your eye
  13. 23. The "clear bricks" of the eye lens that can turn into "moving invaders" if TGFB shows up
Down
  1. 1. The poppy-derived king of analgesics that silences pain by sitting on mu-receptors
  2. 2. The "elite task force" of three proteins that interferon sends to the nucleus to start the defense
  3. 3. The "protective ammonia cloud" a bacterium uses to shield itself from stomach acid
  4. 5. The "impermeable" ion in CF that leaves sweat salty and airway mucus dry
  5. 6. The "foreign ID" that a virus shows to a pattern-recognition receptor to start a fight
  6. 7. The "short-sighted" view of a hormone's function when you only look at its first-discovered role
  7. 8. The "star-shaped" helper cells in the brain that get involved when pain becomes chronic
  8. 14. The "weak base" spy that hides in the blood until it hits acid and turns into a trap
  9. 15. The "partner kinase" to JAK1 that waits at the receptor to start the signaling relay
  10. 16. The "biotype" of cholera that is a more modern, global traveler than its classical ancestor
  11. 18. The brain's "homegrown morphine" that tries to block the pain at the very first gate
  12. 19. The "smooth muscle" proteins lens cells start making when they decide to stop being epithelial