Topic summary
Endocrine cell
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Endocrine system.
Endocrine cells
There are many types of specialized endocrine cells that make up the larger tissues and glands of the endocrine system. The endocrine cells release hormones as molecular signals in endocrine signaling that target cells in more distant locations. In animals there are more than fifty such hormones released by the different endocrine glands.