Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being induced; that may be caused, brought about, or made to take place.
  • Capable of being inferred by induction; that may be concluded or inferred.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being induced, caused, or made to take place.
  • adjective Obtainable by induction; derivable; inferable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able to be induced or caused.
  • adjective Obtainable by induction; derivable; inferable.

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Examples

  • A single injection of piggyBac transposons could achieve long-term inducible gene expression in the livers of mice in vivo, confirming our multiple-transposon strategy used in cultured cells.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Sai K Saridey 2009

  • We hypothesized that the highly efficient plasmid-based piggyBac transposon system would enable long-term inducible gene expression in mice in vivo.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2009

  • A single injection of piggyBac transposons could achieve long-term inducible gene expression in the livers of mice in vivo, confirming our multiple-transposon strategy used in cultured cells.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2009

  • We hypothesized that the highly efficient plasmid-based piggyBac transposon system would enable long-term inducible gene expression in mice in vivo.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Sai K Saridey 2009

  • They are best known as inducible transcriptional regulators of genes encoding molecular chaperones and other stress proteins.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Malin Åkerfelt 2010

  • Therefore, our study reveals a molecular genetic paradigm through which a given memory, such as new or old fear memory, can be rapidly and specifically erased in a controlled and inducible manner in the brain.

    The Crimes of the Future | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Exercise stress tests revealed inducible ischemia, an abnormality in the heart wall considered a precursor to heart disease, in about 27% of the male siblings and about 11% of the female siblings.

    Low Readership of Nutrition Labels Ann Lukits 2011

  • Dr. KEIRSTEAD: I think that the new methods of making stem cells from an adult, inducible pluripotent stem cells, or IPS technology, is one of the great advances of the stem cell field.

    Is Stem Cell Research Making Progress? 2010

  • Monks, DA, et al. Estrogen-inducible progesterone receptors in the rat lumbar spinal cord: regulation by ovarian steroids and fluctuations across the estrous cycle.

    T.S. Wiley: Estrogen Dilemma: There Is No Dilemma When You Know the Details T.S. Wiley 2010

  • The amount of community-strain staph that possessed inducible clindamycin resistance was still low, however, and there were still plenty of other drug options for outpatient treatment: the tetracyclines; the fluoroquinolones; the sulfa drugs; and linezolid or Zyvox, a brand-new and therefore much more expensive drug that could also be taken orally.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

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  • “They are best known as inducible transcriptional regulators of genes encoding molecular chaperones and other stress proteins.”

    Molecular chaperones!

    January 20, 2013