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Discover LudwigThe phrase "for being hypersensitive to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's heightened sensitivity or emotional response to a particular issue or situation.
Example: "She often apologizes for being hypersensitive to criticism, even when it is constructive."
Alternatives: "for being overly sensitive to" or "for being excessively reactive to".
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Washingtonians are well known for being hypersensitive to the elements.
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This was of no practical consequence, as he had no intention of returning to the teaching profession, but it was an early illustration of his capacity, noted by Benson, for unthinkingly giving offence though being hypersensitive to criticism himself.
Double mutants for ΔSMF1+2 are hypersensitive to the divalent-metal ion scavenger ethylene glycol tetra-acetic acid (EGTA).
Cells lacking RecB, which processes DSEs into substrates for recombination, are hypersensitive to TLD (Nakayama et al. 1982).
Two independent T-DNA insertion mutants for WRKY2 were hypersensitive to ABA responses only during seed germination and postgermination early growth.
Background: Breast cancer cells deficient for BRCA1 are hypersensitive to agents inducing DNA double-strand breaks (DSB), such as bifunctional alkylators and platinum agents.
The TS for pol β is hypersensitive to charge stabilization for each mispair, as shown by a dramatic increase in the Brønsted slope (≤−1).
Several studies by Labrie et al. [ 90, 91] on mouse mammary carcinoma cells cultured in different concentrations of DHT demonstrated that a single tumor line can yield wide phenotypic variety in sensitivity to DHT (K M for growth varied up to 1,250-fold 1,250-foldand that low DHT concentratinn selected for clones that were hypersensitive to androgen, requiring minuscule DHT levels for growth.
Thioredoxin reductase is necessary for the viability of C. neoformans [ 24] and is essential for erythrocytic stages in Plasmodium falciparum [ 25]; it also appears to be essential for growth in S. aureus [ 26]. S. cerevisiae strain deleted for trr1 gene is hypersensitive to hydrogen peroxide and high temperatures [ 27, 28].
Ferroportin expression might be a particularly good diagnostic for tumors that would be hypersensitive to iron chelators, or to other means of therapeutically increasing ROS.
For example, R272 cna1Δ mutants are hypersensitive to fluconazole compared with R265 and WM272 cna1Δ mutants.
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