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INVADING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving invasion or aggressive attack
Example:
invasive war
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (for the purpose of attack rather than defense)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb invade
Context examples:
The complement system is part of the defense against invading cells and is composed of about twenty different proteins found in the plasma.
(Classical Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Inflammation is the body’s natural response to invading bacteria or viruses.
(Researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease, NIH)
Specialized immune cells within skin tissue help to fight invading organisms.
(Skin Microbes and the Immune Response, NIH)
The clays may shift the wound environment to a pH range that favors healing, while killing invading bacteria.
(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)
Invading glioblastoma cells may hijack cerebral blood vessels during early stages of disease progression and damage the brain’s protective barrier, a study in mice indicates.
(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)
Neutrophil Activation involves cell interaction and cell signaling mechanisms that recognize or respond to the presence of foreign antigen and that stimulate phagocytosis, degranulation, or generation of reactive oxygen products by neutrophils to destroy invading pathogens or to induce acute inflammatory reactions.
(Neutrophil Activation, NCI Thesaurus)
A new study reveals that, in the face of an invading virus or bacteria, or an irritating chemical, the cell's protein-making machinery goes off-script, inserting more of an amino acid known to help defend proteins against damage.
(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)
Activated neutrophils responding to inflammatory stimulation produce reactive oxygen species like superoxide free radicals to kill invading bacteria, but these reactive oxygen species can also attack endothelial cells lining the vascular wall and trigger apoptosis.
(Free Radical Induced Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A constant low level of spontaneous C3b formation ensures that C3b can bind to invading cells and trigger the rest of the alternative complement pathway to lyse the cells even in the absence of an antibody response.
(Alternative Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A unit for measurement of enzymatic activity of plasma and membrane-bound proteins that comprise a complement system and their split products in functional assays indicative of the activity of the classical and alternative pathways designed to ward off invading pathogens.
(Complement Activity Enzyme Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
