Sentence examples for protective hypothesis from inspiring English sources

If the pica substance is protective as a lining of the intestine, as the protective hypothesis suggests, we would expect the substance to flocculate in the intestine (∼pH 7).

This information is relevant to both the nutritional and protective hypotheses.

Mineralogy is thus relevant to the nutritional and protective hypotheses of geophagy and for example may indicate whether a clay will bind with dietary micronutrients like Fe or Zn or if it is capable of adsorbing toxic chemicals, viruses, or bacteria.

Instead of diet, Prof Carrier and his co-author, physician Dr Michael Morgan, propose that violent competition demanded the development of these facial fortifications: what they call the "protective buttressing hypothesis".

Based on other findings, we expected that selenium would have a protective effect (hypothesis 1).

This might suggest that a lack of obesity in these conditions is only the consequence of inherited protective factors a hypothesis that will need further analysis.

A challenge and unresolved mystery for scientists propagating the protective immunity hypothesis have been the failure to conclusively explain why dengue and (urban) yellow fever coexist in West Africa.

This down regulation confirms the hypothesis that protective endocannabinoid signalling is diminished in epileptic patients and may result in the incapability of increased AEA concentrations to inhibit pathological hyperexcitability.

Overall pre-treatment IgG seropositivity for HHV-6 was significantly lower in patients than in controls (80.6% vs. 91.3%; p = 0.0231) which may be in agreement with Greaves hypothesis of protective effect of common infections in infancy to cancer development.

Indeed, the great variability of the stress responses suggests the hypothesis that protective factors may prevent, weaken or attenuate the effects of stress, avoiding the development of mental disorders [ 26, 27].

From the hypothesis claiming protective effect of negative RAGE forms the question emerges whether the concentration of soluble forms of the aforementioned receptors in the pregnancy can have an impact on the prevalence of preterm labor as a consequence of spontaneous uterine contractility or preterm premature rupture of membranes.