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These insertions may either act as embellishments or promote functional diversity by presenting altered/new binding site for ligand or macromolecule [38], [40].

Respiratory infections may either act as a primer for secondary infection (wherein immunological response to/clearance of secondary infection is reduced) or be an indicator of systemic inflammation.

Some of these soluble PRRs are the secreted forms of cell surface PRRs, and may either act as decoy receptors or as vehicles to deliver the ligand to signaling receptors.

Therefore, our results indicate that HGF may either act as a novel morphogen in the early differentiation process of VSMCs or may facilitate VSMC differentiation via the BMP2 pathway.

Seifi et al. (2013) suggested two different roles in pathogen defense for the metabolism of glutamate, which may either act toward depleting infected tissue from nitrogen compounds to prevent these from being scavenged by the pathogen or it may assist the cell to endure the disease by hauling energy equivalents into the infected tissue.

The latter authors propose that this locus (the M-locus) may either act on intermediary factors or on the dsx gene itself (transformer appears to be either lost or extremely diverged in the mosquitoes [ 8], however transformer2 is present) to suppress female-specific dsx splicing and generate the male form.

None of the genes appeared to be tightly linked to the predicted FHE loci from the RIL analysis, suggesting that they may either represent factors that act downstream of the FHE modifiers, they are unrelated to ZLL function, and/or they represent modifiers that escaped detection in the Ler/Col FHE QTL mapping.

First, the bacteria may acquire an enzyme that can either act like a pair of scissors, cutting the drug into an inactive form, or modify the drug's chemical structure, so that it is rendered impotent.

Depending on the context, both mechanisms may either compete or act together to fix DSBs in eukaryotic cells.

As this time point corresponds to the very end of the first phase (noninflammatory phase) and thus to the beginning of the next (inflammatory) phase, our results suggest that isoflurane may either stimulate nociceptors or act on the peripheral inflammatory processes, as reported by Liu and colleagues at the spinal level [ 38].

Temperature is one type of stress that greatly affects crop production around the world; however, additional stress factors may also act either separately or simultaneously and ultimately place the plant under combined stresses, causing cell damage and the production of secondary stresses, such as osmotic or oxidative stress [ 1, 2].