The phrase 'autonomous to' is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used to express a sense of something or someone having freedom or independence from something else. For example, "The school board is autonomous to the city government."
The judiciary, autonomous to the point of lawlessness, is a big problem.
"A flying car that works on a large scale has to be autonomous to some degree because humans can't pilot in general.
It was the first robot designed to be entirely autonomous, to reason and make decisions based on information about its environment.
"The Korangal Valley," he explains, "is sort of the Afghanistan of Afghanistan: too remote to conquer, too poor to intimidate, too autonomous to buy off".
Barclays has admitted that its investment banking operation Barclays Capital had been "softer" in May and June, which prompted analysts at independent research house Autonomous to cut capital markets revenues for UK banks with investment banking arms.
Those who fail to come to the moral negotiating table over indignity in death condemn the silent many to the lonely path John took that night: scared and alone, yet principled, considerate, and fiercely autonomous to the last.
We are confident that, together, these results allow us to establish several functions of the ALK7 receptor that are intrinsic (i.e. cell-autonomous) to adipocytes.
Only in this way would it be possible to distinguish whether the effect is cell-autonomous to cardiomyocytes or depends upon interactions with other cell types.
As a whole embryo, the percentage of non-autonomous to autonomous degradation of apoptotic DNA was ~30%70%%; however, a higher percentage (~45%) of non-autonomous degradation of DNA was found in the posterior half of embryos (Table 1).
The above findings, together with the fact that Nur77 KO osteoclast precursors exhibited enhanced osteoclast differentiation independent of the bone and neuroendocrine environment, indicate that Nur77 regulation of osteoclastogenesis is mainly intrinsic and cell-autonomous to the osteoclast lineage.
Our view is that the analysis described above, together with the in vitro data shown in Figure 6, demonstrates that the effects we describe are cell-autonomous to adipocytes.
