Sentence examples for provocative agent from inspiring English sources

Capsaicin has gained favor as the provocative agent of choice to measure cough reflex sensitivity, as it induces cough in a safe, reproducible, and dose-dependent manner.

After 20 minutes, a provocative agent, either intravenous isoproterenol (isoprenaline) (Almqvist et al 1989) or sublingual nitroglycerin (glyceryl trinitrate) (Raviele et al 1995), can be administered with a further 15 20 minutes of tilting.

After an initial nebulized saline challenge, subjects inhaled doubling concentrations of the provocative agent (methacholine-bromide 0.038 to 19.6 mg/l or adenosine-5′-monophosphate (AMP) 0.04 to 320 mg/ml) at 5 minute intervals.

Pentagastrin and calcium are the usual provocative agents used worldwide.

Similar to our established models in mice and rats [ 2, 16– 18], inhalation of defined dosages of substances such as provocative agents and drugs coincident to lung-function measurement is now possible in the common marmoset, too.

Two-thirds of subjects with IBS perceive their symptoms to be diet related [ 5] and therefore they may restrict their food intake or eliminate certain provocative dietary agents.

In September, an entire delegation of indignant North Korean officials en route to New York pulled out of a United Nations summit meeting after what they said was "rude and provocative" treatment by security agents working for AMR's American Airlines at the Frankfurt airport.

Overall, the findings in these studies are provocative, and suggest that agents that target the osteoclast and the bone microenvironment may favorably affect disease progression.

It is also possible that ATM is phosphorylated by a different class of kinase and a recent report that IKKβ phosphorylates ATM on serine 1981 in cells exposed to alkylating agents is provocative [ 24].

The provocation proved provocative.

Similarly, there are provocative retrospective data with capecitabine, an agent with well-established efficacy in breast cancer, which has been proposed to cross the BBB via the human concentrative nucleoside transporter (hCNT) [ 52, 53].