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RECRUITMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

Synonyms:

enlisting; recruitment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recruitment" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Derivation:

recruit (cause to assemble or enlist in the military)

recruit (seek to employ)

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 Context examples: 

As a result, nedocromil sodium inhibits both immediate and late bronchoconstriction, decreases bronchial hyperresponsiveness and inhibits recruitment of other inflammatory cells into the airway epithelium.

(Nedocromil Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)

MAD-MAX complexes repress transcription through recruitment of SIN3 co-repressor.

(mSin3, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes C-C chemokine receptor type 9 protein, is involved in thymocyte recruitment and development that plays a role in the specialization of immune responses in the gastrointestinal tract.

(CCR9 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This may lead to the recruitment of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) to the T lymphocyte/tumor cell aggregates and result in CTL-mediated death of gp100-expressing melanoma cancer cells.

(Monoclonal T-cell Receptor Anti-CD3 scFv Fusion Protein IMCgp100, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 11, plays a role in apoptosis regulation and signal transduction.

(CARD11 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 11 (1147 aa, ~133 kDa) is encoded by the human CARD11 gene.

(Caspase Recruitment Domain-Containing Protein 11, NCI Thesaurus)

Eotaxin then stimulates the selective recruitment of eosinophils from the airway microvessels into the lung tissue.

(Asthma Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Anti-LOXL2 monoclonal antibody GS 6624 targets and specifically binds to the scavenger receptor cysteine rich domain 4 (SRCR-4) on LOXL2, thereby preventing the crosslinking of collagen and inhibiting the recruitment and activation of fibroblasts.

(Anti-LOXL2 Monoclonal Antibody GS 6624, NCI Thesaurus)

This results in the suppression of recruitment and activation of tumor associated macrophages (TAM) within the tumor microenvironment.

(Anti-c-fms Monoclonal Antibody AMG 820, NCI Thesaurus)

In particular, phosphorylation of the BCR complex leads to the recruitment and activation of the PTK Syk, which in turn promotes phosphorylation of PLCg, Shc and Vav.

(BCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)