The phrase "double-edged effect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has both positive and negative consequences or implications. For example: The recent tax cut had a double-edged effect; while it provided some relief to working-class families, it further reduced government revenue.
News of a deal in the making had a double-edged effect on investors.
Less remarked upon is the sly double-edged effect of their films, where colorblind casting or the use of actors with disabilities can function equally as sight gag and social comment, and where the comic traditions of cruelty and mortification are subsumed into a spirit of inclusiveness.
The rapid economic development with the country's participation in the globalization process has brought a double-edged effect on rural women's health.
However, studies also suggest that p21 can promote the development of cancer, indicating a double-edged effect showing tumor-suppressing or tumor-promoting properties [9]– [9]].
The potential double-edged effect of the innate immune response following radiation exposure will likely have to be taken into consideration in the development of any potential radioprotective strategies targeting the innate immune response so that treatment can be timed properly.
Notably, critically ill patients reveal increased insulin levels, and insulin has also been reported to accelerate neural cell death in the hippocampus during low glucose levels, suggesting that insulin might have a double-edged effect on neuron death dependent on glucose concentration (25).
He also spoke of the need to improve efficiency in dealing with the government, of the urgent desire for development and the double-edged effects of gambling on reservations.
Like many double-edged effects of technological change and automation, driverless cars may have tremendous upsides, as well.
His group has produced many key findings that have uncovered the double-edged effects of growth hormone and IGF-1, which the liver secretes in response to growth hormone, in aging.
Thus, tachykinins have double-edged effects [ 69] that need to be considered.
To summarize, it is presumable that tachykinins such as SP, as is suggested for certain other situations [ 44], can have double-edged effects in the processes of myositis/muscle derangement, tachykinins being involved in both pro-inflammatory and reparative processes.
