Sentence examples for decrease in lysozyme activity from inspiring English sources
In our study, we show that chronic heat stress leads to a decrease in lysozyme activity.
Exposure to a sublethal dose of pollutant induces a decrease in lysozyme activity after 35 days with the control diet and only after 63 days in fish supplemented with β-glucan (Khoshbavar-Rostami et al. 2006).
Here, we show that parameters involved in cellular stress response and immunity could be enhanced or depleted differently according to the levels of stress and the health status of the fish (e.g., a decrease in lysozyme activity and an increase in complement activity under stress challenge).
However, there were no significant differences in lysozyme activities between fish fed the BG and CONT diets (P > 0.05).
Netilmicin did not affect the percentage reabsorption of lysozyme whereas gentamicin and tobramycin induced a 50% decrease in lysozyme reabsorption by the IPK.
However, a subsequent investigation in oysters showed a slight decrease in lysozyme concentration in P. marinus-infected oysters [ 57].
Clearly, cells with a decreased lysozyme activity are eventually able to compensate for this loss, pointing to the existence of other killing mechanisms.
The fact that concentrations of various OC classes in the loggerhead sea turtles were significantly correlated to four immune parameters (increased T-cell proliferation, increased B-cell proliferation, decreased lysozyme activity, and increased heterophil:lymphocyte ratio) provides additional evidence that turtles with elevated OC exposure exhibit immunomodulation.
However, nickel also induces a direct decrease in the release of lysozyme activity by AM.
In this study, we demonstrated that lysozyme M deficiency results in a decrease in both muramidase activity and antimicrobial property of E-tube in spite of compensatory up-regulation of lysozyme P.
Methanol induction of the strain expressing the T70N variant resulted in a 6.6-fold increase in lysozyme transcript abundance, and a 35-fold increase in secreted lysozyme activity (Fig. 2a, b).
