Sentence examples for may be breakdown from inspiring English sources

It may be breakdown products from the MHC proteins themselves, or it may be the secretions of bacteria that are able to escape the attentions of particular MHC proteins.

Sturges and his colleagues suspect the gas may be a breakdown product of SF6 because both began to appear in air samples in the early 1970s.

Because carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the metabolites of heme catabolism, it has been suggested that there may be increased breakdown of heme in these patients.

The presence of microcystic ME in MS suggests that there may be a breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier and tight junction integrity [ 5].

One hypothetical mechanism keeping gene pools distinct may be through breakdown of intergenomic coadaptation where unmatched nuclear-mitochondrial hybrids exhibit lower fitness (reviewed in Rand et al. [ 54]).

Although ATP itself is generally thought to be the purinergic transmitter candidate, the nucleotide that may produce purinergic response on target cells may be its breakdown product ADP (9).

Although the cause for this heterogeneity is unknown, one possible mechanism may be the breakdown of paracrine communication between cells similar to how our partial inhibition of paracrine communication showed no decrease in ERK variability.

A possible explanation for this increased selfing may be a breakdown of epistasis in intermediate flowering hybrids, caused by linkage disequilibrium between alleles at loci involved in self-rejection mechanisms that co-evolved independently within the two species.

In colorectal cancer, FGFR3 transcripts are readily detected by RT PCR (Jang et al, 2000); these may have escaped the nonsense-mediated decay pathway or may be the breakdown products from larger RNA transcripts, although a frame-shift means that they do not produce protein products.

There may be a power breakdown," says an urgent voice.

There may be a complete breakdown but what is more likely is a splitting of the euro into two, a hard euro in the north (a "greater deutschemark zone") and a soft one in the south.