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Negative Feedback

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-returns a system to homeostasis
-inhibits or counteracts the stimulus that sets off the response

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Example of negative feedback

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Blood sugar (After eating, blood sugar levels rise, triggering the release of insulin from the pancreas. Insulin stimulates cells to become permeable to sugar, causing blood sugar levels to fall, and insulin production to cease.)

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