The phrase "antagonize in" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to purposely provoke or upset someone within a certain place or situation. Example: The politician's speech only served to antagonize the audience even more, causing chaos to erupt in the already tense rally.
People's fears have become so outrageous, straight women, such as Aimee Toms, have been verbally antagonized in the ladies room.
IGF-1 action was antagonized in the visual cortex from P18 to P25 infusing the IGF-1 receptor antagonist JB1 (Fig. 3A) (concentration in the minipump 10 µg/ml, as in Fernandez et al. [47]).
YW210.09 also potentiates Wnt3 and Wnt3a in Hs578T cells, as well as inhibits 5 of the 7 Wnt isoforms that are antagonized in HEK293 cells and can be tested in Hs578T cells.
CsrA is antagonized, in E. coli, by the sRNAs CsrB and CsrC that seem to be absent in Buchnera.
TRAIL-induced cell death, however, was antagonized in response to TNF because in this context only the induction of FLIP is relevant.
Moreover, ubiquitination of endogenous EEA1 may be normally antagonized in cells by cellular deubiquitinases, a family of ubiquitin isopeptidases that remove ubiquitin conjugates from substrate proteins [ 32].
Similar results were also observed in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines where the efficacy of cisplatin was enhanced by EGCG in one cell line, but antagonized in another cell line [ 31].
The relaxations induced by Esera in GPAPs with endothelium were antagonized in a concentration-dependent and reversible manner by both diclofenac (cyclooxygenase inhibitor) and TEA (non-selective K+ channel blocker).
The observation that the biological activity of cell-surface heparan sulphate can be antagonized in this way in a human carcinoma cell line suggests that oligosaccharides should be investigated further as anti-growth factor agents for the treatment of cancer.
Sclerostin is a product of the SOST gene and is known to be a negative regulator of bone formation, by antagonizing in osteoblasts the actions of Lrp5, a key receptor of the Wnt/ β-catenin signaling pathway [ 63].
