Sentence examples for sensitivities to infection from inspiring English sources

It is known that different mouse strains have various sensitivities to infection by both B. anthracis and anthrax toxin [ 103].

After two generations of self-fertilization we then infected these lines and assayed both for sensitivity to infection and for the presence of the JU1580 drh-1 deletion.

Those genes either promote our immune systems' attempt against TB by lowering the sensitivity to infection or blocking the recognition sites by bacteria, via as-yet-unknown mechanisms; these were consequently under selection by pathogens and are changing in frequency in the population (Jostins et al. 2012).

Single clone cultures were tested for sensitivity to infection by the RML strain of PrPRES.

As a response to this increased sensitivity to infection, the developing larvae may be predisposed to dauer dispersal.

Finally, we checked that the increased sensitivity to infection when phagocytosis was blocked correlated with an increased bacterial titer.

To monitor fly sensitivity to infection by DCV, the UAS>VSRs transgenic lines were crossed to the Act5C>GAL4 or hsp>GAL4 driver lines.

The most compelling support to this view is the high sensitivity to infection, and the drastically shortened survival prospect, of organisms with a defective inflammatory response [15].

This result may reflect the homeostatic imbalance in Fg-deficient mice, causing a general increase in sensitivity to infection [33], [34].

Our data provides evidence for a 100 fold increase in cellular sensitivity to infection in the presence of elevated (non-toxic) manganese levels.

Further studies are needed to assess whether differences in TLR expression occur after infection and whether expression differs between tissues, such as macrophages and epithelial cells, which could result in differential sensitivity to infection between cell types.