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Positive Feedback Loop

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A positive feedback loop amplifies a stimulus in its original direction rather than reversing it, and is rare in animal bodies compared with negative feedback.

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Positive feedback needs a natural endpoint built in, since nothing in the loop itself reverses the direction.