Feedback quenching as a means of effectively increasing the period of biochemical and biological oscillators.
A cellular oscillator can be expected to modify the levels of other constituents. In turn, some of these are likely to modulate the behaviour of the oscillating system. Under appropriate conditions this feedback can temporarily quench the periodicity. By such means the frequency of the oscillation can be effectively reduced by a factor of ten or more.
D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D005246:Feedback; D008954:Models, Biological; D010507:Periodicity