0 something that is used to strengthen or improve the quality of something. Enhancer is usually used as a combining form:
Music can be a mood enhancer.
I don't like to use artificial flavour-enhancers in my cooking.
Postnatal repression of the alpha-fetoprotein gene is enhancer independent.
Finally, rescue of adult viability was noted for homozygous males of several excision lines, in both enhancer-trap strains.
We have now started to unravel the basis of the specificity of this multitude of enhancers for their respective promoters.
The presence of further, as yet unidentified, modular enhancers must therefore be invoked.
This work demonstrates that it is possible to selectively improve cognitive performance in chronic, stable, high-functioning patients using targeted cognitive enhancers.
The need for enhancers in gene expression first appears during mouse development with formation of the zygotic nucleus.
During oogenesis and preimplantation development, promoter and enhancer utilization is altered dynamically.
In embryos at the late 2-cell stage, promoter activity is repressed and an enhancer is necessary for transcription.
