Sentence examples for could be defective from inspiring English sources

Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday asking government investigators to determine whether Schering-Plough had shipped millions of inhalers to patients knowing that some could be defective.

In a worst-case scenario, the cartridge could be defective and explode, or it could leak.

We postulated that cells natively expressing high amounts of IKKγΔ could be defective in IRF3 activation.

Alternatively, encapsulation of the germ line cells by the follicular epithelium could be defective, leading to the formation of follicles containing several cysts enclosed together; in this process, individual cysts may also be split [11].

The presence of elevated ROS and lipid peroxidation levels despite higher total GPx and SOD activities in Cftr−/− raised the possibility that some important antioxidant defences could be defective in Cftr−/− airway cells.

The observation that ERK and JNK control both autophagy and apoptosis could be of relevant to treatment of cancers where one of the death signaling machineries could be defective or deficient.

The release of other chemokines or neurotrophic factors by astrocytes could also be defective.

Regarding artisanal process of membrane production, an adequate quantity of specific probe concentrations on the membrane could sometimes be defective which would lead to the same spacer being recurrently problematic in the same center.

If the thermostat sensing bulb is still in place, it could still be defective and may need to be replaced.

In addition, the judge determined that "thoughts, ideas and images" in the defendants' materials did not constitute "products" that could be considered defective.

On the one hand, structural (anatomical) connectivity might be impaired but, alternatively, connectivity could be functionally defective due to impairments of synaptic plasticity in schizophrenia patients [ 38].