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Unwanted biochemistry that would benefit us?
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[QUOTE="jim mcnamara, post: 6857566, member: 35824"] I think you are asking: are there any biochemical "endpoint products" that usually are down-regulated or destoyed at the get-go, but if they are up-regulated instead they really are beneficial? I do not know to determine 'not wanted'. Hormones are down regulated over time, from NIH: I do not know of one like you specified exactly: destroyed before it gets used. Generally biochemical dead ends like this are often selected against in a population. However consider a hormone like adrenaline: It accelerates heart rates and rapidly makes a lot of other changes. Then is down regulated. Close enough? There are also hormone agonists that moderate hormone effects. I chose hormones because everyone knows what they are. There are examples up and down regulation in lots of other areas - immunogenesis, meiosis, DNA transcription... for example. [/QUOTE]
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