Example sentences for: reflexes

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  • Capsaicin's use in the treatment of chronic pain is due to an analgesic effect that is explained by capsaicin's action of depletion of stores of substance P from primary sensory neurons as a consequence of the reduced production of prostaglandin [ 39 60 ] . Capsaicin's antiphlogistic activity is due to the "counter-irritant effect"; which means that a local irritant effect exerts an additional more remote antiinflammatory effect [ 60 ] . This is explained by a liberation of corticoids under the influence of certain cutivisceral reflexes [ 60 ] . The counter-irritant effect on the gastric mucosa also occurs because capsaicin stimulates production of the cytoprotective prostaglandin E 2 [ 60 ] . Capsaicin produces analgesic and antiinflammatory effects because it inhibits both 5-lipoxygenase and cycoloxygenase [ 39 ] . A 10 g human ingestion of red pepper stimulated carbohydrate oxidation [ 62 ] . This may explain why the Chocó Indians used it to give their hunting dogs more "energy" [ 25 ] .

  • There is no gainsaying that standardization of spelling (and of other mechanics of language) can be helpful to communication, but like other reflexes of language proficiency, it can also mark the relative literacy or education of a person.

  • Much of Chomskyan grammar is very boring and mechanistic, with its transformational rules and deterministic reflexes.

  • Most of them are highly skillful — they have to be — and proud of their reflexes.

  • There is no doubt that this one is here to stay--at least for a while--if its reflexes elsewhere ( Kein Problem, Pas de probléme, etc.) are any indication.


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