The phrase "a state of sensitivity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or situation where someone is particularly aware of or affected by emotional or physical stimuli.
Example: "After the incident, she found herself in a state of sensitivity, reacting strongly to even the smallest comments."
Alternatives: "a condition of heightened awareness" or "a phase of emotional receptiveness."
It has been hypothesized that the condition represents a state of heightened sensitivity to antigenic stimuli, with cross-reactivity of the resulting cell-mediated immune response with cells of the epithelium.
Taken together with the present data, this suggests that neurons undergo an early refractory period to evoked Arc expression which gives way to a state of heightened sensitivity as the neurons mature.
Insulin resistance is a state of reduced sensitivity of insulin-responsive tissues to insulin and its key consequences include an impaired ability of insulin to suppress hepatic glucose production and stimulate peripheral glucose elimination.
A state-of-the-art sensitivity analysis carried out to quantify sensitivity of the state variable with respect to uncertainty and changes in different model parameters.
Finally, PIP2 binding to a similar region has been shown to stabilize the voltage sensor of Kv1 channels in a state of decreased voltage sensitivity, thus promoting functional changes opposite to those described for Kv7 channels51.
Calcium sensitivity priming could provide a key mechanism contributing to specificity in Ca2+ signaling, as this response switches between a state of reduced Ca2+ sensitivity to a Ca2+-responsive 'primed' state, thus tightly controlling Ca2+ responsiveness (Allen et al., 2002; Young et al., 2006; Munemasa et al., 2007; Siegel et al., 2009; Chen et al., 2010; Xue et al., 2011).
Opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) is a state of paradoxically increased nociceptive sensitivity seen in both humans and rodents following the resolution of the acute opioid antinociceptive effects or during periods of chronic opioid administration.
However, in some cases with chronic use, the dose of opioids may increase because of disease progression, the development of tolerance and/or the development of a state of abnormal high pain sensitivity (hypersensitivity) that opioids themselves may induce.
A likely explanation for this is that salt sensitivity is a state of sodium hyper-reabsorption at the level of the renal tubules, leading to suppression of RAAS due to increased flow of sodium through the juxtaglomerular apparatus of the kidney and to increased atrial secretion of Nt-proANP as a consequence of atrial wall distension.
Thus, in this paper, we first create a large disorder dataset to evaluate the specificity-sensitivity relationship of a state of the art tool, DISpro [ 2].
