Sentence examples for rather predisposed from inspiring English sources

The patient exhibited decreases in T lymphocyte and NK cell populations, which were present early in the course of disease and persisted for years after clearance of parvovirus B19 infection, suggesting that they were not secondary to infection but rather predisposed her to chronic parvovirus B19 infection.

It makes people rather more predisposed to helping you if you are easy to work with and reliable.

Or rather, are you predisposed to like this because it was ranked so highly?

Listeria monocytogenes (LM) meningitis and other central nervous system (CNS) manifestations occur rather sporadically and primarily affect predisposed individuals.

An important study by Molyneux et al. [ 7] conditionally deleted Brca1 in different epithelial populations (heterozygous for p53) and revealed that luminal rather than basal cells were predisposed to basal-like mammary tumors.

Traction duration did not correlate with pudendal nerve injury (2.6 hours vs 2.8 hours, p = 0.15) but a significantly higher traction force was found in affected patients (73.3 kg-hours vs 34.9 kg-hours, p < 0.03): they concluded that magnitude rather than duration of traction predisposed to injury of the pudendal nerve.

Therefore, it appears that a virtually identical catalytic mechanism for OP hydrolysis has evolved independently from two structurally distinct, but mechanistically similar ancestors, suggesting that it was mechanistic rather than structural considerations that predisposed the ancestors of both the PTEs and MPH to evolve OP hydrolase activity.

Advisers say that she is not predisposed to risk, but rather pursues "evidence based decision-making" — a favorite phrase of hers — and avoiding the appearance of suddenly changing her positions or seeming indecisive.

It is interesting to note that chondrodystrophic dogs are generally predisposed to disc extrusion rather than to disc protrusion.

However, in other cases, it can be transient or only partially occlude the vessel, inducing only UA. 1 It is not known why some patients with CAD are predisposed to the former rather than the latter outcome.

Homozygous R406W carriers may be predisposed to clinical bvFTD, rather than a clinical AD phenotype seen in heterozygous R406W carriers, but further studies are needed to affirm this observation.