The phrase "attempting to inhibit a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to prevent or restrict something, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The researchers are attempting to inhibit a specific enzyme to study its effects on cell growth."
Alternatives: "trying to suppress a" or "seeking to limit a".
Our findings may also explain a previous report of increased MATN3 expression in OA patients [ 11], since articular chondrocytes may be attempting to inhibit IL-1-induced joint tissue destruction by increasing MATN3 production as a means of recovery.
Studies attempting to inhibit over-consolidation have had poor results.
Many current studies are attempting to inhibit various steps of the metastatic process.
The spontaneous contractions of the detrusor, while attempting to inhibit micturition thought to be the origin of symptoms of urinary frequency and urgency during urine storage, are thus the target of current drug therapy.
However, it is not clear if circulating Scl reflects only the osteocytic synthesis or could also be a biomarker of vascular calcification, where vascular smooth muscle cells that had undergone phenotypic transition would also secrete this protein attempting to inhibit calcification progress [ 19].
However, a large number of unknown factors and intracellular signaling pathways have been associated with EMT, the multimodal nature of these complex pathways presents will forbid researchers attempting to inhibit the onset of EMT and the clinical significance of challenging the role of EMT in cancer progression is still relatively weak.
This is especially important as major pharmaceutical companies have begun significant projects attempting to inhibit specific proteins in DNA repair pathways, with the goal of using DNA repair inhibitors in combination with DNA-damaging treatments to prevent repair and trigger death or cell cycle arrest.
Because of the excessive inflammation of the meningeal spaces and its experimental aggravation by bacterial lysis caused by the antibiotics, it can be useful to modify the various players in this immunoinflammatory cascade by attempting to inhibit the polynuclear interactions with the haematomeningeal barrier.
Thus, many clinical trials for severe sepsis attempted to inhibit the action of PAF with a variety of PAF-R antagonists.
Although most effect sizes were relatively modest, the findings supported the notion of addictive social media use reflecting a need to feed the ego (i.e., narcissistic personality traits) and an attempt to inhibit a negative self-evaluation (i.e., self-esteem).
