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defination of regulation terms

Bob bbruner at uclink4.berkeley.edu
Thu Aug 31 20:42:14 EST 2000


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:13:20 GMT, gaurab at ebi.ac.uk wrote:

>Could anyone inform what the terms "Up-regulates" and "Down-regulates"
>mean.  

Actually, just what they suggest, tho in a rather slang way.
Up-regulates means that it regulates in a way that increases
production or activity = turns it up. etc.

They are fairly general descriptive terms, with no technical
connotations beyond the direction, up vs down.

bob








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