Sentence examples for to serve as a signal from inspiring English sources

The alarm call is sounded to warn off potential rivals and threats from its territory and also seems to serve as a signal to its mate when a potential threat is in the area.

Those were words straight out of the Confederacy--and were to serve as a signal that Palin had no intentions of leaving the national stage, that she would be back for another run at the White House, on her terms, without the cumbersome McCain to hold her back.

The diurnal variations of BAs appear to serve as a signal that coordinates daily nutrient metabolism in mammals.

However, the authors were able to detect an Elm1 fusion protein that was tagged with GST at its N-terminus, leading them to speculate that Elm1 normally has a short half-life and that the GST tag interfered with recognition of a PEST motif found at residues 24 50, which is proposed to serve as a signal for rapid intracellular proteolysis [26].

Motivation can be tested by calculating the number of times mice react to specific stimuli meant to serve as a signal for them to leave the box.

This result implies that forced N-linked glycosylation without any other changes can be enough to serve as a signal for protein transport to the cell surface.

The son of Chaim Herzog, Israel's sixth president, and the grandson of Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, Israel's first chief rabbi, Herzog – like Netanyahu – studied in the US before returning to Israel to serve as a signals intelligence major in the army's elite Unit 8200.

ATP, released by erythrocytes under normal physiological conditions, has recently been shown to serve as a signalling molecule regulating vascular tone [24] [26] and ATP receptors have been implicated in a number of signalling pathways [28], [29].

The TEM has been suggested to serve as a signal-networking platform that shifts the characteristics of a cancer between primary tumor and a metastatic phenotype [ 30, 31].

This describes pain as an inherent quality of life that appears early in ontogeny to serve as a signalling system for tissue damage.

Glutamine was recently proposed to serve as a signaling molecule in states of illness and injury, that is, a messenger to turn on genes involved in cell protection and immune regulation [ 57].