Sentence examples for microbial damage from inspiring English sources

This growing recognition is inspiring new techniques to combat microbial damage.

Wouldn't it be better if we could confine AIDS and Ebola to Africa and SARS to Hong Kong, and then return to repair society once the microbial damage was done -- done, of course, to others and not to us?

Protection against both microbial damage and insect attacks can be obtained by chemical modification of the fibre substrate; modern developments allow treatment of natural fibres to make them essentially immune to such damage.

The intestinal epithelium is constantly regenerating due to its continuous exposure to the mechanical and microbial damage from the external environment.

Keratinocyte proteins form a physical epithelial barrier, protect against microbial damage, and prepare immune responses to danger.

Microbial damage to feedstuffs may reduce nutrient content and palatability.

A study presented last week to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development found that the high losses in developing nations "are mainly due to a lack of technology and infrastructure" as well as insect infestations, microbial growth, damage and high temperatures and humidity.

Dendritic cells (DC) are positioned between adaptive and innate immune systems: integrating microbial, tissue damage and inflammatory signals and activating antigen-specific effectors.

In other studies, anti-microbial activity of graphene oxide (GO) has been attributed to induction of microbial membrane damage, disturbance of the membrane potential [93] and electron transport [94], as well as oxidative stress by increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) [95, 96].

These enzymes may be needed to repair microbial DNA damage caused by genotoxic substances, such as nitrosamines and heterocyclic amines contained in ingested foods and secondary bile acids and nitroso compounds synthesized in the intestine via gut microbiota-involving processes.

Ag NPs can penetrate inside the microbial cells, damaging sulfur and phosphorus containing compounds such as DNA and proteins [9, 13 15].