Sentence examples for be protective rather than from inspiring English sources

"If you can identify an antigen involved and you give that antigen, you may be able to divert the immune system to be protective rather than destructive".

Their actions would seem to be protective rather than destructive, but the problem lies in that these clumps then cause inflammation and the formation of neurotoxic tangles that lead to the death of nerve cells and Alzheimer's disease.

When we tested the hypothesis that TLR4 could mediate some of the pro-apoptotic effects of the HF diet, we obtained data that, surprisingly suggested that the presence of this receptor may be protective, rather than harmful, for cells.

The observation in the present study that a high, rather than a low, CB1IR compounds the effect of pEGFR upon disease severity and outcome is at first sight rather difficult to explain, since a high CB1 receptor expression would be expected to be protective, rather than damaging.

Indeed, autophagy induced by co-treatment seems to be protective rather than cytotoxic.

After adjusting for the hazard of death associated with DKK1 and WNT5A, increases in SFRP4 methylation appear to be protective rather than hazardous, this unexpected finding could be due to the small sample size analysed and further studies are required to validate these findings.

His exam prompted the researchers to wonder whether he would have been better off persisting as a runner, because, as they speculate, "continuous exercise is protective, rather than destructive," to knees.

In contrast to the hypothesis of being protective rather than inflammatory, we know that IgG4 plays a central role in the pathogenesis of some autoimmune diseases.

Could it be that these responses are protective rather than maladaptive?

But the available evidence does not allow us to disprove the alternative that, in the adult brain, cell cycle re-entrance is protective rather than destructive.

Thus, our model is the first to directly demonstrate that on balance, the strong TNF-α response to influenza– S. pneumoniae coinfection is protective, rather than a driver of immunopathology.