downregulation
Britishnoun
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These are off-targets on the mRNA-transcribed regions that represent the downregulation of expression in edited samples compared to wild-type ones.
From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023
Researchers found that early stage melanomas which are at risk of spreading secrete a growth factor which causes the reduction, or downregulation, of certain proteins in the skin overlying the tumour.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2022
Adipose-specific loss of LSD1 in mice causes downregulation of BAT-specific genes and aberrant induction of genes typically found in white adipose tissue6.
From Nature • Apr. 30, 2019
These drugs reflect another role of cortisol—the downregulation of the immune system, which inhibits the inflammatory response.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Thus, their downregulation, or reduction in response, would allow the content of the limbic systems that process emotion and perhaps sensory cortices to play a relatively more dominant role.
From Scientific American • May 15, 2012
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