The phrase "autonomous factor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing an element or variable that operates independently or has its own influence in a system or process.
Example: "In the study of ecosystems, the autonomous factor of climate change plays a significant role in species adaptation."
Alternatives: "independent variable" or "self-governing element".
A second view focuses instead on the autonomous factors driving international capital flows that are not merely those implied by changes in the real economy.
The signals that trigger stem cell division and progeny identity are influenced by a complex interplay of intrinsic (cell autonomous) factors as well as extrinsic factors such as those present at the niche, which is the local microenvironment where the stem cell resides.
Non-cell autonomous factors and the role they possess in conferring GABAergic cortical interneuron identity must also be taken into account.
For C. elegans and D. melanogaster we have focussed on screens at the whole organism level as these have the additional possibility of identifying non-cell autonomous factors.
Our studies on age-related loss of gene silencing in oenocytes provide insights into the role of cell autonomous and non-cell autonomous factors in determining the state of chromatin and the regulation of gene expression during aging.
Because floral induction occurs in many plants when specific environmental conditions, such as day length, temperature, autonomous factors, or some combination thereof, are satisfied, it usually occurs annually at a certain time.
However, if in some tissues and organs, components of cellular aging are non-cell autonomous factors, then the administration of exogenous humoral factors might be utilized to reverse the aged conditions of these cells and organs, thus restoring them to a more youthful and healthy state of functioning.
However, the diet switch studies, in which a simple change in diet rapidly alters the state of chromatin repression and gene expression in these cells, indicates that non-cell autonomous factors can also influence the state of heterochromatin repression in long-lived, fully differentiated post-mitotic cells.
Taken together, these experiments suggest that Gfi1 is a specific, intrinsic, and cell-autonomous factor necessary for B cell development in-vitro.
