Sentence examples for defensive agents from inspiring English sources

In autoimmune disorders, the individual's immune system falsely produces defensive agents, called antibodies, which attack its own tissues.

Many groups of invertebrates produce specific substances that serve as defensive agents against predators, parasites, and infections and/or chemicals for intraspecific and interspecific communication.

Broken lactifers specialized hyphal cells that produce the mushroom's latex leak the precursor chemicals whose breakdown products act as the defensive agents toxic to humans, effectively deterring certain vertebrates that might consume the mushroom.

We use inhibitors in oil extraction and processing industries, because there they proved to be best defensive agent against corrosion [58].

To ensure the most accurate results, researchers drew participants' blood before the viral exposure to test for levels of rhinovirus antibody, a defensive agent in the immune system that recognizes and attacks rhinovirus.

Oxalate is commonly present in higher plants and often accumulated at substantial concentrations in the plant biomass, the calcium salt of which can function as antiherbivore defensive agent (Franceschi and Nakata 2005).

The team also signed four first-year defensive free agents: end Adriano Delli, end and tackle Eric Chandler, linebacker Jody Littleton and tackle and end DaMonte McKenzie.

The Jets, who looked like frantic Christmas Eve shoppers scooping up defensive free agents last year, will not be quite as busy, although they are expected to have some wiggle room under the projected $74 million salary cap.

After signing a half-dozen defensive free agents in a week, the Jets turned their attention yesterday to their one hole on offense -- left guard -- as they sought a replacement for Kerry Jenkins, who signed with Tampa Bay.

NO is considered one of the most important defensive endogenous agents in the gastric mucosa [ 33].

Top offensive free agent Lance Moore and top defensive free agent Roman Harper re-signed in long-term deals.