Example sentences for: up-

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  • Anderson's museum is traditional, art-history-minded, and eager to ingratiate itself with, rather than flabbergast and dumbfound, up- and out-of-towners.

  • For each pair of experimental conditions, a gene was considered to be "regulated" if it showed at least a two-fold change in expression level (either up- or down-regulated) between conditions, and "unregulated" if the expression ratio was less than two-fold.

  • Spearman's rank order correlation determined significant monotonic relationships that illuminate important connections between structural features in tissue elements and genes that have been reported as significantly up- or downregulated by CCl 4 treatment in previous studies [ 7 ] . Principal component analysis (PCA), as described in Materials and methods, was carried out to reduce the complexity of the data [ 15 ] and then to relate individual animals to specific phenotypic groups.

  • In hamsters, rats and mice, increases and decreases in bile acid absorption at the brush border membrane are mediated by an up- or down-regulation in IBAT gene transcription [ 33 34 ] . In several rodent species including mice, regulation of IBAT is clearly dependent on intraluminal bile acid concentrations and occurs via a negative feedback mechanism [ 33 34 35 ] . Feeding of bile acids suppresses transcription of IBAT mRNA and reduces IBAT protein abundance; feeding of the bile acid binder cholestyramine has the opposite effect.

  • A cutoff of twofold up- or down-regulation has been chosen to define differential expression in most published studies [ 1, 2].


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