Sentence examples for direct blockage from inspiring English sources

Such land bridges allowed migration of animals and plants during the lowstands, but in high latitudes the effects of cold climate and direct blockage by glaciers could modify their effectiveness.

The potential target of BoNT-A in chronic migraine is the direct blockage of trigeminal neurons providing nociception to the head and face.

One of the most efficient strategies is to interfere with bacterial adherence, the first step in the biofilm formation, by direct blockage of surface receptors [8] or using a non-specific strategy, usually involving compounds with anti-adherence properties [9 11].

In addition, the fact that extractable 26S proteasome activity is normal in R6/2 brains [12] and the current finding that GFPu steady-state levels are unchanged in R6/2 neurons suggests that any impairment of the UPS caused by mutant polyglutamines does not occur through direct blockage of the 26S proteasome.

This is of relevance, as direct blockage of cell cycle in OPCs would invariably result in cell differentiation (Dugas, Ibrahim, & Barres, 2007).

This is the first study to investigate macrophage inhibition through direct blockage of GM-CSFRα as a novel therapeutic approach in RA.

In fact, direct government blockage of an Internet service is tantamount to a customs official stopping certain goods at the border.

Of main concern is the high probability of non-line of sight (NLOS) and Direct Path (DP) blockage between sensor nodes which biases the TOA estimation and degrades the localization performance.

Monoclonal antibodies can effectively recognize and kill cancer cells through different mechanisms such as direct stimulation or blockage of cell surface receptors, inhibition of tumor-related signal transduction leading to apoptosis, or indirectly through induction of host immune response.

Since scientists have found a direct relationship between dopamine blockage and reduction of schizophrenic symptoms, many believe that schizophrenia may be related to excess dopamine.

The overall performance can be described in terms of the concentration polarisation layer existing above the membrane, and direct consideration of pore blockage etc. is not warranted, once effects of interaction between such species and the membrane are described by a single phenomenological term the rejection.