Sentence examples for mediate the first from inspiring English sources

Nitric oxide synthases (NOSs) mediate the first window of anesthetic-induced preconditioning (APC).

Because 8H3 binds to E2s region of HEV which has been proposed to mediate the first contact with host cells to initiate viral infection (He et al., 2008; Li et al., 2009; Tang et al., 2011), our results may have broad implications in understanding the protection mechanism of HEV vaccines and drugs designed against the HEV virus.

By non specific mechanisms such as phagocytosis and extracellular killing via toxic agents they mediate the first line of defense against infection.

Visual pigments mediate the first step in the visual signaling pathway, the conversion of light into an electrical response.

In insects, the odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are encoded by a moderately sized gene family, and mediate the first steps of the olfactory processing.

Autophagosomes are double-membraned vesicles that mediate the first step of autophagy by sequestering organelles, long-lived proteins, and/or portions of the cytoplasm.

This inhibited recruitment occurs despite the rapid mobilization of surface β2-integrins (CD11b/CD18) and ICAM-1 (CD54), which ordinarily mediate the second phase of tight endothelial-cell binding.

phaB1 is known to mediate the second step in the PHB biosynthesis, the reduction of acetoacetyl-CoA to R -3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, which is then further polymerized to poly 3HB) by the PHB synthase PhaC1.

Nociceptors have two types of axons, the rapidly conducting thinly myelinated Aδ fibers that mediate the initial phase of acute pain that is extremely sharp pain, and the more slowly conducting unmyelinated C fibers mediate the second phase of acute pain that is more prolonged and less intense following injury.

The authors tested the hypothesis that endothelial NOS (eNOS) mediates the first window and inducible NOS (iNOS) mediates the second window of APC.

Psy1 is a nuclear encoded gene that mediates the first step in the plastid-localized carotenoid biosynthetic pathway.