"combating stress" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to strategies or efforts to lessen or cope with stress. For example, "My doctor suggested I take up yoga as a way of combating stress."
More important, though, the study is a useful reminder that exercise is a proven, inexpensive and non-pharmacological means of combating stress — even, as it turns out, the stress of feeling that you should be exercising.
Based on this premise, NHLBI instituted an innovative program aimed at combating stress by allowing employees to exercise in short bursts.
It is becoming increasingly clear that also epigenetic processes cooperate in a concerted manner with ABA-mediated gene expression in combating stress conditions.
Pause — the latest release from digital design studio ustwo (aka the maker of Monument Valley) — is billed as a "relaxation and meditation experience" aimed at combating stress and the kind of scatterbrained thinking our multi-tasking, multi-device always-on existences risks encouraging.
While the benefits of mindfulness/meditation are generally widely accepted these days, with most people agreeing it's a sensible approach to combating stress and emotional distress, the more pressing question might be why do people need an app just to sit quietly for a few minutes?
The researchers also found that in older brains, activity was cranked up in genes that play a role in the body's immune response and combating stress and indicating that even if cells can't repair the damaged promoters, the brain tries to buffer the oxidative beating.
But some scientist shows that W. somnifera has the capability of combating stress-induced infertility.
The reduction in NADP-reducing enzyme activities under oxidative stress is surprising given the role of NADPH in combating oxidative stress, but it is consistent with recent work that also found reductions in these enzymes under oxidative stress generated by knocking out superoxide dismutase enzyme activity (Bernard et al. 2011).
We found the increased expression of ten genes (bpss0175-0184) belonging to T6SS-4 under oxidative stress conditions suggesting that T6SS-4 may play a role in combating oxidative stress.
This would certainly encompass those family members that have become part of the IFN system, which is itself a response cellular insults such as viral infection and oxidative stress, while allowing for the possibility that other family members contribute to combating cellular stress independently of the IFN system.
SOD performs a pivotal function in combating oxidative stress in plants, and a marked increase in SOD activity has been demonstrated to occur upon exposure to oxidative stress (Jalali-e-Emam et al. 2011).
