NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negative feedback mean? 

• NEGATIVE FEEDBACK (noun)
  The noun NEGATIVE FEEDBACK has 1 sense:

1. feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input

  Familiarity information: NEGATIVE FEEDBACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGATIVE FEEDBACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("negative feedback" is a kind of...):

feedback (the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output)

 Context examples 

Alteration of positive or negative feedback mechanisms can induce hormone release.

(Endocrine Secretory Process, NCI Thesaurus)

This depolarization exerts a negative feedback on Ca2+ entry via RACC/SOC.

(Ion Channels in Vascular Endothelium Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A feedback is an enhancement (positive feedback) or a damping (negative feedback) of an initial change, in this case in the climate system.

(Climatic feedback mechanisms, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

In turn, as part of the negative feedback mechanism, reduced furin protein levels inhibit TGFbeta1 and TGFbeta2 gene expression, thereby further decreasing TGF levels.

(bi-shRNA-Furin/GM-CSF-Expressing Autologous Tumor Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Protein C is activated by thrombin and with the Protein S cofactor provides a strong negative feedback in this phase of clot formation.

(Extrinsic Prothrombin Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

By inhibiting mTOR to a lesser extent than PI3K, PQR309 does not interfere with the mTOR-mediated negative feedback loop on PI3K signaling.

(pan-PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor PQR309, NCI Thesaurus)

Alteration of positive or negative feedback mechanisms can affect hormone release.

(Epinephrine Secretion Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

In turn, ACTH stimulates cortisol production from the adrenal cortex and is regulated by a negative feedback mechanism.

(Corticorelin Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

Alteration of positive or negative feedback mechanisms can inhibit hormone release.

(Endocrine Secretory Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

This reflex arc provides negative feedback.

(Muscle Spindle, NCI Thesaurus)