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up-regulation

up-regulation is the alternative spelling of upregulation.

Meaning of upregulation

Noun

upregulation (countable and uncountable, plural upregulations)

  1. The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors increases in order to increase sensitivity.

Questions about up-regulation

What is up-regulation the alternative spelling of?
Up-regulation is the alternative spelling of upregulation.

Words near up-regulation in the dictionary

  1. up-puttings
  2. up-regulate
  3. up-regulated
  4. up-regulates
  5. up-regulating
  6. up-regulation
  7. up-stairs
  8. up-tick
  9. up-ticks
  10. up-tight
  11. up-tighter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up-regulation (page history and authors); upregulation (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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