Sentence examples for Attenuate it from inspiring English sources

The general practice was to isolate a disease organism, figure out how to keep it alive in the laboratory, then weaken or "attenuate" it by passing it over and over through a series of cells, typically from chicken embryos, until it could no longer reproduce in humans but could still elicit an immune response.

Pasteur was the first to use this technique, passaging rabies virus in rabbits in order to attenuate it for dogs and humans (Plotkin 2011).

It is the achievement of clarity, of focus of mind, which may indeed intensify what is felt rather than attenuate it (though typically it does not).

Why does lipid raft disruption amplify G-protein signaling in some cells but attenuate it in others [24], [25]?

Non-caveolae rafts with their small size and cell surface coverage amplify G-protein signaling in neuronal cells, while caveolae with their relatively larger size and membrane coverage may attenuate it in CHO cells.

Use of vertebrate models subject to detailed and high-throughput molecular biological analysis, and large-scale mutagenesis approaches, might be pivotal in both understanding the mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline, and in searching for therapeutic strategies to attenuate it.

The data indicate that DPY enhances reactive hyperemia while antagonism of adenosine with THEO attenuates it.

"This draft does not shred the existing policy; it merely attenuates it somewhat," said Mr. Aftergood, who made the draft public last week in Secrecy News, his Internet publication.

We found that administration of OP at low dose (3 μg/kg) enhanced LTM, whereas a dose of 60 μg/kg attenuated it.

We demonstrated that micropattern alignment parallel to the flow direction enhanced flow-resistant EC adhesion, while micropattern alignment perpendicular to the flow direction attenuated it.

If the design parameters of the TMD are selected wrongly, it may accelerate the vibration of the system instead of attenuating it.