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enzyme induction

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enzyme induction [′en‚zīm in′dək·shən]
(microbiology)
The process by which a microbial cell synthesizes an enzyme in response to the presence of a substrate or of a substance closely related to a substrate in the medium.


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In addition, drug interactions with some antiretrovirals decrease serum hormone levels through enzyme induction, potentially reducing contraceptive efficacy.
Early research focused on the "blocking activity" of SFN via Phase 2 enzyme induction, as well as inhibition of enzymes involved in carcinogen activation, but there has been growing interest in other mechanisms of chemoprotection by SFN.
For ACE, enzyme induction appears to be associated with mitogen-activated protein kinase and early growth response 1 transcription factor (Day et al.
 
 
 
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