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Constitutively meaning
in a constitutive manner | at a constant rate regardless of physiological demand
Example sentences (6)
A mutation that causes certain tyrosine kinases to be constitutively active has been associated with several cancers.
COX-1 is a constitutively expressed enzyme with a "house-keeping" role in regulating many normal physiological processes.
However, the COX enzymes are expressed constitutively in some areas of the CNS, meaning that even limited penetration may cause adverse effects such as somnolence and dizziness.
Methylation of lysine 9 of histone H3 has long been associated with constitutively transcriptionally silent chromatin (constitutive heterochromatin ).
The abnormal FIG-ROS fusion protein has constitutively active kinase activity that causes oncogenic transformation (a transformation from normal cells to cancer cells).
They can cause cancer by turning the receptor permanently on (constitutively), even without signals from outside the cell.