The phrase "a protective defense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing measures or strategies that are intended to safeguard or shield something from harm or danger.
Example: "The organization implemented a protective defense to ensure the safety of its data against cyber threats."
Alternatives: "a safeguarding measure" or "a defensive strategy."
For Freud, denial was a defense against external realities that threaten the ego, and many psychologists today would argue that it can be a protective defense in the face of unbearable news, like a cancer diagnosis.
Resveratrol (RSV) is a polyphenolic phytoalexin (3, 5, 4'-trihydroxystilbene) produced by plants as a protective defense mechanism against pathogens or environmental stress [ 1].
When a stimulus, like an auditory tone, occurs at the same time as a painful or otherwise aversive event, the tone comes to be associated with the pain and thereby acquires the capacity to trigger a protective fear (defense) response on its own.
At present, it remains unclear, whether HIF-1 represents a protective host defense during inflammatory hypoxia, or is part of a pathogenic response elicited by invading pathogens or excessive inflammation.
One of the most important protective defense mechanisms against such DNA damage is the base excision repair (BER) pathway, which recognizes a wide range of DNA lesions.
143 In general, the primary protective defense mechanism against invasive fungal infection is T cell-mediated immunity, specifically, a robust Th1 response to fungal antigens.
Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) act as mutually supportive antioxidative enzymes, which provide protective defense against reactive oxygen species [ 63].
With regard to the present findings of coordinated induction of the TLR2/6 complex during hypoxia, it remains unclear if such changes in TLR signaling patterns represent a protective host-defense mechanism or can further exacerbate infection and inflammation associated tissue damage.
A proportion of BCRs may bind autoantigens with too low an affinity to trigger an autoimmune response, but may bind strongly enough to invading pathogens to exert a protective host-defense effect.
It could also be that the seemingly inordinately protective defenses are a byproduct of other things that we just haven't measured yet", added Dr Wilson.
A second reason for vulnerability is the speed with which infectious organisms evolve ways to deal with antibiotics and the protective defenses of the human body.
