inhibition
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The study, "Neuromuscular junction failure in sarcopenia is linked to NaV1.4 loss and reversed by ClC-1 inhibition," was published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Without inhibition, Ferrier believed that we’d all be slaves to our basest impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It added that more people treated with ziltivekimab had serious infections, but that was consistent with aiming for IL-6 inhibition.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
“I can be more daring in English. I can say the words or verbalize the thoughts with much less inhibition, because I am not as emotionally attached,” he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
He had disguised the event as a football rally, strictly for students, without the inhibition of the teachers being present.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
"I overcame my inhibitions about asking strangers if they needed my help, and I realised that people liked me for who I was, that they had no idea that I was an ex-footballer."
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
He concludes his account with the most radical abolitionist of all, John Brown, who had little patience for the inhibitions of the Bostonians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
He told The Times that his career in the editorial world encouraged him to move past certain creative inhibitions, which would later serve him in filmmaking, specifically for “Bonnie and Clyde.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Surely as the problems its families and couples think they’ve left behind catch up to them, others that have been long-gestating are coaxed into view by the warm atmosphere and relaxed inhibitions.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
And Mr Harry Smith himself seemed to lose all inhibitions, for now he leaned forward and continued: 'That's what we fought Hitler for, after all.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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