Across
- 3. “Vase” opens wide: a widening tube that lowers resistance and helps blood flow. (11 letters)
- 4. A “psycho-kinetic” immune text: small proteins that coordinate who does what, when, and how hard. (8 letters)
- 6. “Chemistry makes taxis”: cells follow chemical gradients like they are chasing a smell trail. (10 letters)
- 9. Long-distance relationship signaling: made in one place, acts far away, carried by blood. (9 letters)
- 12. The gas pedal transmitter: excitatory fuel that also gets dumped downstream of TRPV activation. (9 letters)
- 15. A bouncer at the spinal cord door: sometimes touch fibers can reduce what pain gets through. (11 letters)
- 16. Feelings have receipts: pain is not just signal, it is also emotion, and this system signs the invoice. (12 letters)
- 18. When the membrane gets more negative, the cell gets less dramatic, and muscle tends to chill. (16 letters)
- 21. Sounds like “pro-stay-calm” for vessels: a prostaglandin that biases toward dilation through cAMP logic. (12 letters)
- 23. Where pain gets “edited” before it climbs higher; central sensitization can rewrite the script here. (10 letters)
- 24. A volume knob turned up: the same input starts to feel louder after inflammatory mediators meddle. (13 letters)
Down
- 1. The opposite of “go with the flow”: tightening radius to raise resistance and pressure. (16 letters)
- 2. “All-dose-to-stay” salty: the hormone that makes the body hang onto sodium and water downstream of RAAS. (11 letters)
- 5. When viruses interrupt your cells, these are the alarm broadcasts that prime antiviral gene programs. (11 letters)
- 6. Pull yourself together: actomyosin does exactly that when the right kinase wins the argument. (11 letters)
- 7. The letter “P” is for “pain propaganda”: released from nociceptors to spread the inflammatory message. (10 letters)
- 8. A calm “module” that only gets busy when calcium shows up, then helps turn contraction machinery on. (10 letters)
- 10. When voltage rises, calcium gates stop being shy, and contraction becomes more likely. (13 letters)
- 11. A neighborly note: the signal that talks next door, not across the body and not back to self. (9 letters)
- 13. A “throw-box” of vasoconstriction: a prostanoid that pushes platelets and vessels toward tightening. (10 letters)
- 14. A Ten, sin, and tension: this peptide shows up in the RAAS story when vessels need to clamp down. (11 letters)
- 17. The complaint department: first to report heat, acid, stretch, and chemicals before the brain writes the story. (10 letters)
- 19. A little “ananda” (bliss) that still plays two-faced roles depending on receptor context. (10 letters)
- 20. The quiet middle-person: when it is happy you get NO-based relaxation, when it is angry tone shifts. (11 letters)
- 22. Sometimes the best response is to *let go* — especially when smooth muscle drops tone and vessels widen. (10 letters)