Sentence examples for by blocking the flow from inspiring English sources

Avastin works by blocking the flow of blood that brings oxygen and nourishment to tumors.

Like saxitoxin, dibucaine and lidocaine act by blocking the flow of sodium, dulling the sensation of pain.

The product has at times been hailed as a near miracle, the first medicine to work by blocking the flow of blood to tumors.

These hydrates could induce serious damages by blocking the flow of subsea fluids.

The gouge (pieces of broken rock) produced during such slip may further complicate the picture by blocking the flow in the fracture and thereby reducing the fracture permeability (Lorenz 1999; Smart et al. 2001).

This is done by placing an impermeable cover over the hazardous-waste site and by blocking the lateral flow of groundwater with subsurface cutoff walls.

Native silicon oxide can also interfere with gold deposition in the nanopores by blocking the electron flow from the substrate to the electrolyte.

Briefly, partial ischemia was created in the vessels by blocking the blood flow while the ischemic vascular bed was used to treat the cells under ischemia.

avoids the reduction of PQ by blocking the electron flow from PS II [ 24].

Most strokes are caused by a clot blocking the flow of blood to the brain.

These effects were most potent due to inhibition of complex III by antimycin A, blocking the flow of electrons from semiquinone to ubiquinone in the Q cycle in complex III, and to oligomycin inhibiting ATP synthase by blocking its proton channel, essential for the oxidative phosphorylation of ADP to ATP.