Sentence examples for but may confer from inspiring English sources
Vascular malformations are uncommon but may confer significant morbidity.
Outpatient medication use is common, but may confer health risks that compromise its therapeutic benefits [ 1- 3].
Prophages may harbour cargo genes, which are non-essential for phage function, but may confer virulence and other traits to the host cell.
However, the kinetics of alterations in NFκB activity cannot explain the acute suppression of IL-1β-induced IL-6 production by HDACi, but may confer a protective effect in the face of chronic inflammatory stimulation.
This suggests that darting during fear conditioning does not interfere with the formation or memory of the tone-shock association, but may confer a long-term protective or adaptive state that promotes increased cognitive flexibility and thus enhanced extinction maintenance (Maren et al., 2013).
These, too, come with the levered pedestals, but ownership may confer kinder treatment.
Collectively, our findings suggest that 19q12 amplification does not increase resistance to chemotherapy per se but rather may confer a survival advantage post-treatment.
This discrimination may not have a purposeful intent but still may confer adverse impact.
The function of uromodulin is still unclear but it may confer protection against inflammation and infection.
This notion raises the important issue of how to define phosphosite function, especially because many proteins are phosphorylated on multiple sites that individually may be dispensable but collectively may confer an important function, such as cooperative protein recognition or regulation (45 50).
The core genome typically comprises the genes that encode essential functions related to the basic biology of the species, whereas the dispensable genome contributes to species' diversity and provides functions that are not essential to its basic lifestyle but that may confer selective advantages (niche adaptation, antibiotic resistance, ability to colonize new hosts, etc).
