How to Use pathogenesis in a Sentence

pathogenesis

noun
  • The animal model also has been used to test vaccines, drugs, and pathogenesis of the disease.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2018
  • One made the mice emaciated, a sign of severe pathogenesis.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Missing from the collection of studies on the 5’ uOrf is its role in replication and pathogenesis in animal disease models.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Scientists had pinpointed mink as a likely animal model in which to study the pathogenesis of coronaviruses 16 years ago, in the wake of the first global SARS outbreak.
    New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Rothman has been researching immunity and the pathogenesis of viral diseases in humans (that is, the way a disease develops) for more than 30 years.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There are no mutations to the structural proteins of the sublineages, but there are four noted mutations in the regulatory (accessory) proteins that play a role in viral pathogenesis.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Nowhere is this more evident than in his earliest and least known work, his medical thesis, which proposed a pathogenesis of syphilis based upon, well, rather elementary reasoning, dear Watson.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
  • Monkeypox transmission and pathogenesis in prairie dogs.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2015
  • Major research interests of Dr. Hamilton were the pathogenesis and treatment of hypertension, and new treatment modalities in diabetes and dyslipidemia, which is abnormally elevated cholesterol or fats in the blood.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • This observation provides independent support of the critical role of viral proteins in innate immune suppression and virus replication and pathogenesis.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Distinct microbial lifestyles – pathogenesis or biofilm formation – are believed to be triggered by autoinducers.
    Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED, 5 June 2013
  • Topics that will be covered include the epidemiology of low back pain, anatomy and pathogenesis, diagnosis and imaging, medical and physical therapy interventions, and more key concepts.
    Hartford Courant, 6 May 2022
  • Proteins that are participant in pathogenesis are attractive targets for research and development.
    David Reese and Kári Stefánsson, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Liza Loza, a graduate student in molecular microbiology and microbial pathogenesis at Washington University, was excited to be asked to teach a discussion section about four years ago.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • This leaves mutations in nonstructural proteins, 3’ structural proteins, and 3’ regulatory (accessory) proteins relatively uninvestigated, despite playing a significant role in host immune suppression and pathogenesis.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Proliferation, not pathogenesis, is its selective advantage.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Others include replication efficiency, evasion from neutralizing antibodies, and viral pathogenesis.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021

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