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It takes your brain time to down-regulate the dopamine receptors in your brain to normal, pre-addiction levels.
Dr. Ali Binazir: Unplug or Die: Kill Gizmo Addiction Before It Kills You 2010
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Our lozenges appear to down-regulate the body's excessive inflammatory response to the influenza virus, which could reduce the deadly consequences of an infection into something that is more like a common cold.
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• It will be harder for them to down-regulate their automated stress reactions and heal
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Unlike other RNA-based approaches, AVI's technologies can be used to directly target both messenger RNA (mRNA) and precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) to either down-regulate (inhibit) or up-regulate (promote)
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Unlike other RNA-based approaches, AVI's technologies can be used to directly target both messenger RNA (mRNA) and precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) to either down-regulate (inhibit) or up-regulate (promote) the expression of targeted genes or proteins.
unknown title 2011
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Unlike other RNA-based approaches, AVI's technologies can be used to directly target both messenger RNA (mRNA) and precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) to either down-regulate (inhibit) or up-regulate (promote) the expression of targeted genes or proteins.
unknown title 2011
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Unlike other RNA-based approaches, AVI's technologies can be used to directly target both messenger RNA (mRNA) and precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) to either down-regulate (inhibit) or up-regulate (promote) the expression of targeted genes or proteins.
unknown title 2011
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Therapeutics that use RNA interference, or "RNAi," have great promise because of their ability to "silence," or down-regulate, the expression of a specific gene that may be overexpressed in a disease condition.
unknown title 2011
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Many tropical leguminous N-fixing trees seem to down-regulate N fixation when soil N availability is high
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Duncan N. L. Menge et al. 2010
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However, repetitive exposures can cause the living system to down-regulate the stress response mechanism in order to avoid exhaustion.
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010
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