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Aspects of cellular signalling; extracellular signals - hormones,cytokines and growth factors; detection of extracellular signals -receptors; protein phosphorylation, kinases and phosphatases; cAMP,adenylyl cyclase and the role of G proteins; inositol phosphatemetabolism and the roles of other membrane lipids; intracellularcalcium - its control and role as an intracellular signal; nitricoxide, hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide; insulin and thesignal-transduction cascades it invokes; perception to our environment- photoreception and the detection of chemicals.