'pathogenic factors' is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to factors which cause or contribute to disease or illness in a living organism. For example, "Research has found that poor diet and lack of exercise are both major pathogenic factors in heart disease."
It has been shown that the pathogen employs a number of strategies against the immune cells using secreted pathogenic factors.
These cellular activities range from being protective to pathogenic factors.
The protein toxins are major pathogenic factors and causally involved in various diseases induced by Clostridia.
To apply a novel proteomic method to discover potential pathogenic factors and biomarkers of preeclampsia.
Among the different pathogenic factors, phosphate homeostasis is one of the initiating factors for the onset of CKD-MBD, which is initiated during early stages of CKD.
Compelling evidence implicates mitochondrial deficiency, oxidative stress, and inflammation as important pathogenic factors in PD.
Here, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the immunopathogenesis of IBD, discussing known and emerging pathogenic factors that include immune and nonimmune events.
The separation or, much more difficult, the quantification of the effects of the two pathogenic factors is frequently very difficult or impossible.
The present study was designed to determine the pathogenic factors responsible for glucose intolerance in CHC patients.
Although some cortical malformations result from environmental insults during cortical development in utero, genetic factors are increasingly recognized as primary pathogenic factors across the entire spectrum of malformations.
As a complex disease, CVD is the consequence of multiple pathogenic factors and reflects the altered interactions of many interconnected genes and gene products [9].
