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upregulation

noun

Etymology

From up- + regulation.

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

Definitions

  1. 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 increases in order to increase sensitivity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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