The phrase "extend the hypothesis" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to further develop or expand upon a proposed explanation or theory. Example: The researcher decided to extend the hypothesis by conducting additional experiments and gathering more data.
The results support and extend the hypothesis that schizophrenia is associated with concurrent increases in tonic dopamine activity and decreases in phasic dopamine activity.
We extend the hypothesis to incorporate the role of abortion, arguing that it acts as a substitute for contraception in the study context.
These results are consistent with our hypothesis that the OVOLs impact cancer susceptibility by regulating MET, and extend the hypothesis to include mechanisms not specific to MET.
Finally, we extend the hypothesis that Wnt genes may be the earliest primary body axis patterning mechanism by suggesting that Hox genes were co-opted into this patterning network prior to the last common ancestor of cnidarians and bilaterians.
In The hypothesis section, I consider groups other than animals and plants, including protists, and conclude that we presently have insufficient information to extend the hypothesis beyond animals and plants.
However, more evidence that takes into full account the cell biology of the proteases any poly turnover in the lung are needed to extend the hypothesis and to form a rational basis for therapeutic and prophylactic measures.
As CooS sequences of clostridial origin are basal to genes of Treponema species both in clade A and clade C, the present study extends the hypothesis by suggesting that carbonyl branch genes of the acetyl-CoA pathway in termite gut treponemes may also have been acquired from a clostridial member of the phylum Firmicutes in the distant past.
The emerging knowledge about the extrarenal activation of 25(OH D, prompting the calcitriol-related genomic effects at an autocrine and paracrine level, extended the hypothesis of such a causal link also in CKD cohorts [ 22].
Such a proposal is compatible with, and extends, the hypothesis proposed by others that deficient interplay between the fronto-striatal and mesocortical dopamine networks underlies the dysexecutive syndrome of Parkinson's disease (Cools, 2006; Monchi et al., 2004).
While our previous work showed evidence that the aphid slimfast expansion is maintained in the A. pisum genome because some paralogs evolved a novel role in mediating symbiotic interactions [ 9], this study extends the hypothesis for the maintenance of the slimfast expansion to include paralog divergence for unexpected sex-dependent functions.
