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down-regulation

down-regulation is the alternative spelling of downregulation.

Meaning of downregulation

Noun

downregulation (countable and uncountable, plural downregulations)

  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 receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity

Questions about down-regulation

What is down-regulation the alternative spelling of?
Down-regulation is the alternative spelling of downregulation.

Words near down-regulation in the dictionary

  1. down-page
  2. down-regulate
  3. down-regulated
  4. down-regulates
  5. down-regulating
  6. down-regulation
  7. down-river
  8. down-set
  9. down-sets
  10. down-share
  11. down-shares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: down-regulation (page history and authors); downregulation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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