The grammatically correct phrase is "induce a disease".
For example, "Exposure to certain chemicals can induce a disease in humans."
In a baboon model of BPD using premature delivery and oxygen supplementation to induce disease pathology, the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) 1α, but not HIF 2, was found to be downregulated in the pulmonary tissue.
"Viruses are molecular genetic parasites and are mostly recognized for their ability to induce disease".
Ultimately, to induce disease, they must have sufficient virulence and invasiveness to cause significant tissue injury.
Many host factors determine whether the agent will induce disease or not.
Emerging evidence suggests that canine parvovirus may induce disease in cats.
However, new evidence from animal models supports the hypothesis that viruses induce disease via mechanisms linked with innate immune upregulation.
Ethylene is an important hormone involved in plant responses to various stress situations (e.g. pathogen attack); and exposure of plants to ethylene can induce disease resistance (Geraats 2003).
Morarji et al. reported the successful treatment of necrotizing scleritis (secondary to granulomatosis with polyangiitis) with infliximab whilst waiting for rituximab to induce disease remission [10].
Whether ethically right or not, our knowledge of human disease has progressed considerably as our understanding of how we can genetically induce disease in mice has advanced.
Although N. fuckeliana was found to be the most common wound invader in these studies, the fungus does not induce disease (Vasiliauskas et al. 1996) as it does in Pinus radiata.
They say, "We explain the documented effects of glyphosate and its ability to induce disease, and we show that glyphosate is a 'textbook example' of exogenous semiotic entropy: the disruption of homeostasis by environmental toxins".
