Contextualizebeta

downregulation

noun

Etymology

From down- + regulation.

  1. borrowed from regulatus
  2. suffixed as regulation — “regulate + ion”
  3. prefixed as downregulation — “down + regulation”

Definitions

  1. The suppression of a response to a stimulus

  2. The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of…

    The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for downregulation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA