The phrase "ameliorate harmful" is not correct as it lacks a noun to complete the thought.
You can use it when discussing the improvement of something that is harmful, but it needs to be part of a larger, grammatically complete sentence.
Example: "We must find ways to ameliorate harmful effects of pollution on the environment."
Alternatives: "mitigate harmful" or "reduce harmful".
The upregulation of Foxp3+ cells in the skin of patients with early SSc may reflect a regulatory feedback mechanism to restore cellular tolerance and ameliorate harmful autoimmune responses.
ECD programs that address the family context while acknowledging the larger economic, social, cultural and political contexts have the potential to act as preventative measures and to ameliorate harmful environmental risk factors that promote violence.
Thus, the maintenance of resilient ecosystems and their capacity to ameliorate harmful natural and anthropogenic environmental conditions and events, and regulate pathogens, is a critical component of an ocean-public health risk management strategy.
Ultimately, these data will provide a basis for devising strategies to prevent disease by avoiding or ameliorating harmful exposures and exploiting those exposures that confer protection.
Treatment with melatonin (10 mg/kg) ameliorates harmful effects of irradiation by increasing lymphocytes count (LC) as well as antioxidant enzymes activity and decreasing nitric oxide (NO) levels at all time points [ 14].
But pre-treated with N-MPG (ROS scavenger) could ameliorate the harmful effects on PC12 cells induced by TiO2 NPs.
The plant extract was able to ameliorate the harmful effects of carbon tetrachloride to varying degrees; with the highest dose seemingly the least effective.
In this acute endotoxic rat model, we demonstrate that DDAH-1 inhibition by L-257 could reduce norepinephrine dosage and ameliorate its harmful effects.
Also, induction of cyclo-oxygenase-II (COX-II) has been shown to ameliorate the harmful effects of ROS through its negative effects on p53 [ 7- 9].
As reviewed (Clark and Vissel, 2013), a range of studies point to efficacy of anti-TNF agents and GLP-1 mimetics, which, as TNF induces insulin resistance, ameliorate consecutive harmful steps in those brain disease states with excess TNF, whatever their traditional, clinically based, disparate nomenclatures.
