Draft:Gasocrine signaling

In cellular biology, gasocrine signaling is a form of cell signaling, a type of cellular communication in which a cell produces a gaseous signaling molecule or gasotransmitter or gaseous phytohormone or volatile organic compounds to induce changes in the cells or nearby cells or cells of other organisms, altering the behaviour of those cells due to altered gasoreceptor protein activity. Signaling molecules known as gasocrine factors can diffuse over a relatively short distance (local action) or very large distances. Cells that produce gasocrine signals secrete them into the immediate extracellular environment. Factors then diffuse to nearby cells in which the gradient of factor received determines the outcome. However, the exact distance that gasocrine factors such as O2 can travel has not been determined yet.