The phrase "are rendered sensitive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is made sensitive or more responsive to certain stimuli or conditions.
Example: "The materials used in the experiment are rendered sensitive to light, allowing for more accurate measurements."
Alternatives: "are made sensitive" or "become sensitive".
Thus as predicted by our hypothesis, cells with wild-type expression of NEMO that are rendered sensitive to TNF-induced apoptosis by NF-κB blockade (i.e., 'NF-κB-deficient' cells) do not require RIP1 to undergo apoptosis.
This is the first report to show that newly established cell lines that are resistant to classical chemotherapeutic agents are rendered sensitive when the drug enters the cell as a drug monoclonal antibody carrier.
However, an artemis construct deleted at the C terminus thus removing endonuclease activity of the protein results in a dominant-negative phenotype, whereby the 48BR fibroblasts are rendered sensitive to the lethal effects of radiation and radiomimetic drugs (Mohapatra et al, 2011).
To determine whether radioresistant cells could be rendered sensitive by targeting the DNA repair pathway, the PARP inhibitor niacinamide was added to cells prior to irradiation.
In this fashion, tumors predicted to be therapy resistant might be rendered sensitive to the original therapy and treatment efficacy could be increased.
RA SF T cells were resistant to glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis when cultured in the presence of monocytes but were rendered sensitive to all three tested compounds upon SF isolation.
Interestingly, TAP-positive tumor cells can be rendered sensitive to TEIPP-specific CTL after treatment with proteasome inhibitors as, e.g. lactacystein or by deficiency of other APM components as, e.g. tapasin [ 19].
Accordingly, we analyzed for the effect of RIP1 downregulation in cells that were rendered sensitive to SMC-mediated TNF α-induced cell death because of dual downregulation of SMG1 and NIK.
Indeed, both systems are rendered more sensitive to the central region and less to the periphery by the presence of the lancet.
In our study, although Bag-1 reduces cell yield in SCC-13 cells, the cells are rendered more sensitive to 5-FU-induced apoptosis.
DP thymocytes, normally highly sensitive to apoptosis, are rendered significantly resistant to most cytotoxic agents by overexpression of Bcl-2.
