overproduce
The illness caused an overproduction of steroids in her body.
Overproduction and low prices caused most mines to close.
A tumor on her pituitary gland was causing an overproduction of growth hormone.

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Examples of overproduction

overproduction
But since overproduction of corn has depressed the price of corn for many years, this change could actually benefit farmers economically.
Overproduction made exporting a necessity for the industrialised nations.
Quantifying and directing metabolic flux : application to amino acid overproduction.
Second, the outbreak clearly occurred due to overproduction of coca in a facility that was not designed for this use.
Lately, the global coffee industry has changed radically; it has suffered a long cycle of lowest-ever world market prices caused by overproduction and technological change.
The recent lessons of the depression - falling commodity prices, overproduction of certain agricultural staples - indicated otherwise.
Furthermore, supernumerary synapses are eliminated after their overproduction earlier in development.
This protein is essential for cell viability and its overproduction has deleterious effects on both host and plasmid replication.
The organism's efforts to regenerate the side-chains led to an overproduction.
The cross-contamination resulting from the overproduction was probably the main contributory factor of the outbreak.
Evidence is presented of young dolphins' overproduction of variants of adults' whistles, as in the avian overproduction of subsongs.
It seems that this overproduction of cuticular hydrocarbons was essentially triggered by stress.
At the heart of this refusal was the ill-founded but widespread assumption that the depression was a crisis of overproduction.
The overproduction of synapses early in life and the selective elimination of excess connections in adolescence allows experience to modify synaptic architecture.
Such processes result in localized synaptic overproduction, followed by deletion, and are implicated in learning and memory formation.
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