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- verb Present participle of
inactivate .
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Examples
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As it turns out, a very similar gene, Atonal homolog 1, controls the development secretory cells in the lining of the colon in both humans and mice — and, as Bossyut and his team discovered, inactivating Atoh1 in mice triggers the onset of colon cancer.
Intervallic cell Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Who needs the chance? one responded, citing a standard method of inactivating viruses with heat and pressure.
'Bizarre Bits' Exhibition Took a Strange Turn When Feds Arrived Betsy McKay 2011
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As it turns out, a very similar gene, Atonal homolog 1, controls the development secretory cells in the lining of the colon in both humans and mice — and, as Bossyut and his team discovered, inactivating Atoh1 in mice triggers the onset of colon cancer.
Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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This was an entirely novel concept: many drugs on the market used to treat autoimmunity are aimed at inactivating TNF-alpha.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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This was an entirely novel concept: many drugs on the market used to treat autoimmunity are aimed at inactivating TNF-alpha.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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The liver is capable of inactivating many environmental toxins and excreting them through the stools or via the kidneys into the urine within hours of exposure.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: "Detox Diets" and Prolonged Fasting Can Be Toxic to Your Health 2010
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Typically, one of the deletions would “hit” the front end of the gene, while the other deletion might hit the back end in both cases, the functional consequences would be the same—inactivating Rb.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Activating or inactivating any single gene, he postulated, produced only the first steps toward carcinogenesis.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The liver is capable of inactivating many environmental toxins and excreting them through the stools or via the kidneys into the urine within hours of exposure.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: "Detox Diets" and Prolonged Fasting Can Be Toxic to Your Health 2010
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Another technique, known as facet joint denervation involves inactivating nerves in the joints that enable the spine to bend and twist, such as in the neck, by passing radio waves via needles inserted through the skin to heat the tissue at the tip of a joint.
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