Sentence examples for as a protective function from inspiring English sources

"Diet can serve as a protective function," says Sandquist.

The sensation of pain serves as a protective function, by alerting us to real or impending injury, triggering protective responses [1].

Given the above information, we speculated that PPAR α activation may serve as a protective function to restrain liver inflammation in cases of ALF.

Dehaloperoxidase hemoglobin A (DHP A) is a multifunctional hemoglobin that appears to have evolved oxidative pathways for the degradation of xenobiotics as a protective function that complements the oxygen transport function.

This distribution in normal tissues resembles the distribution of Pgp (Ambudkar et al, 1999) and may point towards a physiological role comparable to Pgp, such as a protective function in normal tissues and fetus against toxic agents, regulation of uptake of orally administered substrates, and excretion processes in the liver.

Studies by other researchers also confirmed that several E3 ubiquitin ligases (such as Parkin) exhibit a protective function against ER stress-induced apoptosis in neuronal cells [ 26].

It should be noted that this biological function can be regarded as the opposite of a protective function against chitinases that was reported for other fungal LysM effector proteins.

In addition, both GLP-1 receptor agonists and insulin analogs, such as insulin glargine, exhibit a protective function on beta cells, suggesting that the two agents in combination might represent a new therapeutic option for preservation of beta cell mass in patients with type 2 diabetes.

This is consistent with the findings that the induction of GRPs causes a protective function as the survival responses to nutrient starvation, acidosis, and hypoxia conditions, which are common in poorly vascularized solid tumors [11], [40].

The same may be true in the esophagus after the reflux of an excessive amount of gastric acid, and PGs may act as a mediator of such a protective function in this tissue, in collaboration of these afferent neurons.

It has been suggested that a dampening of stress responsivity during pregnancy, may serve a protective function, as over exposure to maternal stress hormones and alterations in cardiovascular responses, including uterine blood flow, may disrupt normal fetal development (Christian 2012).