Sentence examples for serving as a defence from inspiring English sources

GlyRS was recently shown to be secreted by macrophages and to be present in human and mouse serum, serving as a defence against ERK-activated tumour formation (31).

Thus religion served as a defence against dehumanisation.

Mohammed bin Salman, who also serves as a defence minister, has recently made a series of power moves that have caused the world to stand up and take notice: from presiding over the war in Yemen to efforts to fix the country's economic woes.

He then served as a Defence Security Officer in Malta and Gibraltar.

This document released by Walpole served as a defence of Wood's coin; the report argued that the coin was important to the people of Ireland.

A high brick wall and a moat were constructed around the yard to serve as a defence measure and remained in place until the end of the 19th century.

Bergen further claimed that Curtis's arguments serve as a defence of Bush's failure to capture bin Laden in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and his ignoring warnings of a terror attack prior to 11 September.

It has been suggested that such head-swings could serve as a defence of the parasitoid pupae against predation or hyperparasitism [20], [22], but evidence is lacking.

Death of these cells would i) preserve the food for the remaining population, ii) serve as a defence mechanism to restrict phage spreading, and iii) act as a mechanism to eliminate cells with deleterious mutations.

This indicates that apoptosis serves as a defence mechanism to avoid tumour development.

On the contrary, polyandrous females have also been suggested to benefit from processes based on non-additive genetic effects if multiple mating served as a defence against genetic incompatibilities between them and their partners.