Medical Definition of Feedback regulation

1. Control mechanism that uses the consequences of a process to regulate the rate at which the process occurs: if, for example: the products of a reaction inhibit the reaction from proceeding (or slow down the rate of the reaction), then there is negative feedback, something that is very common in metabolic pathways. Positive feedback is liable to lead to exponential increase and may be explosively dangerous in some cases. Other examples are the action of voltage dependent sodium channels in generating action potentials and the activation of blood clotting factors V and VIII by thrombin. Without damping, feedback can lead to resonance (hunting) and oscillation in the system. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feedback Regulation

feed on
feed out of
feed the dragon
feed the meter
feed the troll
feed upon
feed zone
feed zones
feedable
feedback
feedback activation
feedback circuit
feedback control
feedback inhibition
feedback loop
feedback regulation (current term)
feedback system
feedback transfer function
feedback transfer functions
feedbacked
feedbacker
feedbackers
feedbacking
feedbacks
feedbag
feedbags
feedbox
feedboxes
feedburner
feeded

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