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upregulated

upregulated is the simple past and past participle of upregulate.

Meaning of upregulate

Verb

upregulate (third-person singular simple present upregulates, present participle upregulating, simple past and past participle upregulated)

  1. To increase the number of cell receptors by using upregulation

Questions about upregulated

What is upregulated the simple past and past participle of?
Upregulated is the simple past and past participle of upregulate.

Words near upregulated in the dictionary

  1. upreared
  2. uprearing
  3. uprears
  4. upregulatable
  5. upregulate
  6. upregulated
  7. upregulates
  8. upregulating
  9. upregulation
  10. upregulations
  11. upregulative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upregulated (page history and authors); upregulate (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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