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The elucidation of molecular mechanisms driving neutrophil plasticity in vivo will open new treatment opportunities designed to modulate, rather than block, the crucial adaptive functions fulfilled by neutrophils.

It maybe that symbionts use cyclomodulins like CDT and Cif to modulate, rather than globally deregulate, host signaling pathways resulting in initiation of symbiosis.

While there seems to be homologous insulin signaling pathway mutations that ablate the CR response in yeast [i.e. Sch9, an AKT homologous protein and TOR, 33], mutations in chico (IRS-1 homologous proteins) modulate, rather than block, the CR response in flies [34].

In the mutant ETR1(G2), His-kinase activity is lost due to a mutation within the ATP binding site of the receptor [42]; this mutation has a modest effect upon the plant's ethylene response indicating that kinase activity is likely to modulate rather than be essential for signaling [21].

The role of other airway sensory receptors might be to modulate, rather than initiate cough.

Thus, changes in average daily temperature modulate rather than block entrainment to daily temperature gradients.

Finally, we discuss a new modulation technique, where the master is modulated rather than the slave.

A new strategy of intervention has been proposed in recent years aiming at modulating, rather than inhibiting, thrombin function.

At Cologne emphasis was immediately placed on electronically generated sounds rather than concrete sounds and on electronic sound modifications such as filtering and modulating rather than tape manipulation.

It may be noted that complement activation has both positive and negative effects and, therefore, might be modulated rather than abruptly blunted.

On his account, supersense generates beliefs in the supernatural (religious and otherwise) all on its own, and such beliefs are thereafter modulated, rather than instilled, by culture.