Sentence examples for putative ability from inspiring English sources

As such, the putative ability of endothelial precursor cells (EPCs) to specifically home to hypoxic sites of neovascularization prompted to design optimized, site-specific, cell-mediated, drug-/gene-targeting approach.

These agencies will question not only his effective monopoly of the satellite television business, but his putative ability to influence the success of news and entertainment networks through his ability to distribute programming to millions of subscribers.

Still other studies have suggested that onset age is a more robust method of predicting illness course, both due to its demonstrated efficacy in delineating phenotypically distinct subgroups and its putative ability to reflect common genetic characteristics (Alda et al. 2000; Azorin et al. 2013; Baldessarini et al. 2012; Etain et al. 2012).

On this view, realist commitment is based on the putative ability to causally manipulate unobservable entities (like electrons or gene sequences) to a high degree for example, to such a degree that one is able to intervene in other phenomena so as to bring about certain effects.

No less than the Oxford Dictionary has a definition for the term: "The putative ability of homosexuals to recognize one another intuitively or by means of very slight indications, " or, "the putative ability of heterosexuals to discern the homosexuality of others".

The putative ability of platelets to metabolise quercetin and tamarixetin was investigated by HPLC analysis which involved measuring the presence of these compohunds and potential metabolic products in extracts from platelets treated with the flavonol and metabolite.

Not all basal-like tumors and very few HER2+ tumors, however, contain CD44+/CD24- cells, emphasizing that a putative tumorigenic ability may not be confined to cells of this phenotype and that other breast cancer stem cell markers remain to be identified.

Similarly, lake-type sockeye might have colonized pro-glacial lakes at the southern margin of the ice sheets without benefit of the putative colonizing abilities of sea/river-type sockeye.

Although we have not explored such putative effects, the ability of SRA to inhibit TNFα-mediated JNK phosphorylation is one such possibility.

We wanted to directly correlate this evidence with a putative 'recovered' Akt ability to protect from apoptosis in SH 2 cells.

At trial, Microsoft attempted to rebut the presumption of monopoly power with evidence of both putative constraints on its ability to exercise such power and behavior of its own that is supposedly inconsistent with the possession of monopoly power.