The phrase "a dualistic role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a position or function that has two distinct aspects or responsibilities.
Example: "In her new job, she has a dualistic role, balancing both administrative tasks and creative projects."
Alternatives: "a twofold role" or "a bifurcated role".
Current literature highlights a dualistic role for Hh signaling in melanocyte biology [41], [42].
Thus, it is now becoming evident, that the sympathetic nervous system may play a dualistic role during the inflammatory response, than previously thought.
Moreover, an increasing body of evidence implicates a dualistic role of these hormones in plant defences and sensitivity to pathogens [ 21- 26].
The importance of TGF-β in OA has been recognized and reviewed [ 45, 46] and is reported to have a dualistic role in articular tissue.
With regard to p73 belonging to the p53-suppressor gene family (Rosenbluth and Pietenpol, 2009), downregulation of p73 is in accordance with a dualistic role of p73 protein in both inhibition and activation of autophagy.
This suggests a complex, dualistic role of TSP-1 as a regulator of tumor growth.
Following HI, a bidirectional communication between the injured brain and the peripheral innate and adaptive immune system regulates the progression of both ischaemic pathology and tissue repair (for an in-depth review of the dualistic role of inflammation, see An et al, 46).
The results revealed the dualistic role of A. dealbata in local livelihoods.
Taken together, our results have exposed the dualistic role of the CSN signalosome in regulating the proper balance in dendritic arborization.
Autoethnographers have explored this dualistic role of autoethnographer and self, with Olson ([ 50], p. 7) stating: "The dualistic role of a personal survivor and an academic is a reflexive one, each informing the other, never separate from one another".
Several reports have described a dualistic neuroprotective-neuromodulatory role of ATP interacting with the specific ionotropic receptors (P2XR) and G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs; P2YR) (Fredholm et al., 1994).
