Sentence examples for mediate or contribute from inspiring English sources

These data indicate that resveratrol and its 4'-O-sulfate metabolite may mediate or contribute to the health benefits attributed previously only to resveratrol.

We propose that high levels and/or increased oxidation of cyclophilin D mediate or contribute to this sensitivity.

These include genes important for cell cycle progression, growth factor related signaling pathways, cellular survival and apoptosis, and additional genes (including kinases, transcription factors, and co-regulatory proteins) that mediate or contribute to cellular proliferation and/or survival.

Other processes, such as the inflammatory stress mentioned earlier, might also mediate or contribute to higher risks of cardiovascular diseases later in life for babies born to preeclamptic mothers.

These mild effects may be explained by the rapid clearance of injected cytokines (Abraham et al., 2010) but may also reflect the requirement for IL-6 to mediate or contribute additively to IFNAR effects (Fig. 8).

There is mounting evidence that health care systems can mediate or contribute to inequalities in health, depending on health care access, utilization, and quality differences between population sub-groups [ 17- 19].

Additionally, the olfactory system could be mediating or contributing to the avoidance of acetic acid in the cotton swab or the two-bottle preference tests.

Evidence is accumulating that metabolites of dietary polyphenols may mediate, or substantially contribute to, the pharmacological efficacy of the parent molecule, and thus explain efficacy despite the apparent low bioavailability, as is observed with 1,3,4′-trihydroxy trans-stilbene (resveratrol), which is found in grapes (Gescher and Steward, 2003).

Taken together, the data indicate that both the overall activity of Nrf2 pathway and expression level of many Nrf2-regulated antioxidant and detoxifying enzymes are decreased in CRI-G1-RS cells; these genetic changes are likely to mediate (or at least contribute to) increased vulnerability to mitochondrial and oxidative stress seen in these cells.

Therefore, we additionally analyzed which potentially underlying or mediating factors contribute to these associations and to what extent by adding these factors one by one or simultaneously to the models (Supplementary Data).

There is increasing evidence that non-neutralizing antibodies that can mediate ADCC contribute significantly to protection against HIV infections.