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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.

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Examples

  • Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have proposed a sweeping new theory of autism that suggests that the brains of people with autism are structurally normal but dysregulated, meaning symptoms of the disorder might be reversible.

    Later On 2009

  • The cortisol system is very closely tied to the neurotransmitter systems that regulate mood, and having high or dysregulated cortisol on a continuing basis will have a very negative effect on your neurotransmitters, with the consequence that you will become depressed.

    Andrew Solomon - An interview with author 2010

  • Uncoupling of ATP-mediated calcium signaling and dysregulated interleukin-6 secretion in dendritic cells by nanomolar thimerosal.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Uncoupling of ATP-mediated calcium signaling and dysregulated interleukin-6 secretion in dendritic cells by nanomolar thimerosal.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • But the same core pathways were characteristically dysregulated in any tumor type, even if the specific genes responsible for each broken pathway differed from one tumor to the next.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • What, beyond abnormal, dysregulated cell division, was the common pathophysiological mechanism underlying cancer?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • That NFκB has been linked to this wide variety of diseases is not too surprising because most diseases are caused by dysregulated inflammation.

    Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010

  • Ras may be activated in one sample of bladder cancer; Mek in another; Erk in the third—but in each case, some vital piece of the Ras-Mek-Erk cascade was dysregulated.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • How many pathways are typically dysregulated in a cancer cell?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • But although dysregulated cell division is the pathological hallmark of cancer, cancer cells do not merely divide; they migrate through the body, destroy other tissues, invade organs, and colonize distant sites.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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