Sentence examples for augment the resistance from inspiring English sources

Further, we identified two minor QTLs, which can be used to augment the resistance while developing new cultivars with improved resistance to this important disease.

Studies demonstrated that cigarette smoking or nicotine treatment, by upregulating Bcl-2, decreased the susceptibility of cancer cells to apoptosis or augmented the resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapies (Zangemeister-Wittke et al, 1998; Losert et al, 2007; Resende and Adhikari, 2009).

We have tested and present here a technique designed to augment the pullout resistance of an anchor in poor-quality bone with the use of a second anchor as an interference fit; this report describes our in vivo results with this procedure.

This effect is attributed to warm-up angina, which is thought to augment the innate resistance of the myocardium to an ischaemic insult [ 51, 52].

The reciprocal activation between PAK4 and PI3K/AKT pathways may represent a positive regulatory circuit that mutually reinforces the PAK4 and Akt activities to further augment the CDDP resistance in gastric cancer.

Recent studies showed that cyclin E can undergo proteolytic cleavage to create low molecular weight (LMW) cyclin E variants [ 45] and these LMW cyclin E variants lacking the amino-terminus could significantly augment the tamoxifen therapy resistance by activating CDK2 functions [ 46].

Decrease in distance from rails enhances the proximity effect, but has nothing to do with the skin effect, which also augments the rail resistance, resulting in temperature rise.

Brake pads are developed with light alloy Aluminium 2014 reinforced with SiC to augment the strength and wear resistance and explore the advantage of low density of the matrix.

It has been assumed that chronic endurance training might act primarily by improving insulin resistance, while resistance training would augment the capacity for glucose uptake by increasing skeletal muscle mass.

In addition, NS309 was shown to augment the acetylcholine-induced vasodilatation in small-resistance arterioles that might improve the recovery of damaged tissue.

The availability of phosphine resistant mutants [6] and a comprehensive suite of genomic resources (http://www.wormbase.org/) augment the value of C. elegans for phosphine resistance research.