Sentence examples for to become insensitive from inspiring English sources
"It's easy for us to become insensitive to minorities," he said, "since there are so few minorities amongst us".
For instance, Roundup ready crops have been modified in order to become insensitive to glyphosate.
Chronic exposure to ethanol causes ENT1 receptors to become insensitive to alcohol and go back to cleaning up adenosine.
In combination with miR-155 mediated elevation of IL-2 expression in CD4+ Th cells, we could demonstrate that raised miR-155 levels in human and murine CD4+ Th cells not only induces cell proliferation, but moreover renders CD4+ Th cells to become insensitive to nTreg cell-mediated suppression.
Large input typically saturates a system, causing output to become insensitive to further increases in input.
These features thus enabled castration-resistant tumors to become insensitive to the therapeutic effects of PI3K/AKT targeted therapy.
Prostate-specific antigen doubling time and PSA velocity seem to rapidly become insensitive to changes as a man undergoes repeated tests, and this may mean they are unsuitable for the long-term monitoring/surveillance of men with localised prostate cancer.
While DEET generally is effective against insects, there is evidence that several species, including the mosquito Aedes aegypti, a carrier of yellow fever and other infectious viruses, and Rhodnius prolixus, a member of the assassin bug family that is known to transmit Chagas' disease, can become insensitive to the chemical.
As a result, the tumours become insensitive to radioiodide therapy due to a loss of radioiodide uptake and accumulation in the cells [ 30].
Finally, at repletion, marginal changes in energy are not predicted to have significant impact on ecological fitness, and organisms will become insensitive to risk (risk-neutral).
It was previously shown that the blue and red spectral ranges, the main absorption bands of chlorophyll, are only sensitive to low chlorophyll levels, but at moderate to high levels, they become insensitive (Gitelson and Merzlyak, 199419961997).
