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messenger /mes·sen·ger/ (mes´en-jer) an information carrier.

second messenger any of several classes of intracellular signals acting at or situated within the plasma membrane and translating electrical or chemical messages from the environment into cellular responses.

second messenger,

a chemical substance inside a cell that carries information farther along the signal pathway from the internal part of a membrane-spanning receptor embedded in the cell membrane. It may be in the form of an enzyme's product or ion fluxes.

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