Sentence examples for mount a defensive from inspiring English sources

Plants wield typical basal and resistance (R) gene-mediated defense mechanisms and mount a defensive response to pathogen attack to delay or arrest potential pathogenic microorganism growth [ 3] through pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) systems.

By conveying this information to the lymphoid system, the body is able to mount a defensive immunologic response to the foreign material.

Such is the reach of the latter's reputation that the Australian outfit has had to mount a defensive public relations exercise to head off contamination of its brand.

When an herbivore eats a plant it selects for plants that can mount a defensive response.

This immunopathology is a major difference between murine and insect models, since insect hosts mount a defensive immune response to C. albicans infections based on phagocytic cells and the upregulation of antimicrobial peptides but do not develop septic shock [12], [13].

A decreased ability of motor neurons to mount a defensive response through up regulation of heat-shock proteins, has been suggested to be part of ALS pathogenesis [ 56].

Global climate change is also influencing the geographic distribution of hosts and pathogens, while also dually influencing the capacity of the pathogen to cause disease and the host's ability to mount a defensive response (Table 1).

You don't have to join your teammates in a ruck, and, in fact, you may not want to if you're preparing to mount a defensive effort.