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In vitro, telomere length operates as a mechanism to prevent uncontrolled cell growth and therefore defines the proliferation potential of a cell.

These operate as a rescue mechanism when respiration is arrested.

It is conceivable that these changes might operate as a compensatory mechanism.

PTGS in plants can operate as a defence mechanism against virus infection (for reviews see [ 8, 23]) and numerous plant viruses encode silencing suppressors, which are thought to have developed as a response to the plant PTGS system [ 24].

Further, when such environmentally based parenting interventions lead to change in child behaviors, parenting may operate as an environmental mechanism of change.

The HCN can thus operate as a slow negative feedback mechanism.

Deletion is the predominant mutational mechanism for the lack of detectability of αCNSs in Br, but other mechanisms operate as well.

One view is that philanthropy can operate as a kind of penance mechanism.

In addition, the accumulation of most of these mutant proteins upregulates autophagy activity through poorly defined mechanisms, and operates as a detoxification mechanism.

Making this vision a reality calls for a real paradigm shift in the ways that the state, market and citizenship operate, as well as the creation of new mechanisms for collaboration amongst them.

Although our findings show an active WNT signaling in childhood T-ALL, other mechanisms may operate as well, for instance as shown in mammary carcinoma, where excessive autocrine or paracrine WNT production causes high WNT signaling in tumor cells.