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• enzyme: Screen saver time will be used to find small molecules which inhibit a key enzyme used by the virus to unpack its DNA.

• resorption: All act by binding to the bone surface thereby inhibiting osteoclast resorption.

• proliferation: Secondly, normal cells respond to signals which inhibit proliferation; cancer cells are insensitive to these signals.

• germination: Nitrate can stimulate or inhibit germination depending on the concentration.

• secretion: Other effects of the plant are to dry up mucous membranes and inhibit secretions ( not an aphrodisiac, presumably!

• absorption: The presence of food may enhance or inhibit the absorption of a drug.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• responsible: It stops the growth of new bacteria by inhibiting an enzyme responsible for constructing the cell wall.

Modifying Another Word

• selectively: Statins selectively inhibit leukocyte function antigen-1 by binding to a novel regulatory integrin site.

• competitively: Experimental work shows that losartan ( tho not its active metabolite ) competitively inhibits urate reabsorption in the renal proximal tubule.

• thereby: Where these circumstances apply, existing owners will normally refuse to sell whilst hoping for circumstances to change, thereby inhibiting timely regeneration.

• markedly: Homocysteine and copper interact to markedly inhibit the relaxation of the rabbit corpus cavernosum.

• severely: Probenecid can severely inhibit renal excretion of methotrexate, and so is contraindicated.

• significantly: In face processing tasks gifted males had significantly inhibited left hemisphere activity.

Used with why or when

• when: Feel inhibited when asked to read out your work to your group?

Present participle complement

• learn: In schools, mental health is a problem; anxiety and stress inhibit learning.

Preposition: in

• way: If quality and innovation are inhibited in this way then the primary purpose of subsidy is undermined.

Preposition: by

• concentration: Has the root been stimulated or inhibited by this concentration of IAA?

• lack: Computation of analyzes, as opposed to statistics ( there is no statistics buffer ), is not inhibited by the lack of Oracle.

• presence: They were not inhibited by the presence of the review team.

• fear: A person's ability to experience hypnotic suggestions can be inhibited by fears and concerns arising from some common misconceptions.