IN TURN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in turn mean? 

• IN TURN (adverb)
  The adverb IN TURN has 1 sense:

1. in proper order or sequence

  Familiarity information: IN TURN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN TURN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In proper order or sequence

Synonyms:

in turn; successively

Context example:

the stable became in turn a chapel and then a movie theater

 Context examples 

This finding showed that vitamin D pathways in immune cells play a key role in chronic inflammation that, in turn, affects development of insulin resistance and atherosclerosis.

(How Vitamin D May Affect Heart Disease, Diabetes, NIH)

Dopamine, in turn, inhibited production of inflammatory chemicals.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

In turn, the homeostasis of amyloid-beta and hundreds of other proteins in the brain is broken.

(Brain cholesterol associated with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, University of Cambridge)

They are in turn thought to be driven by the presence of supermassive black holes, which drag surrounding material inwards and spit out bright jets and radiation as they do so.

(Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy, ESA/NASA)

These proteins in turn cause changes in the composition and function ('maturation') of adjacent signal receptors, called 'AMPARs', on the neuron's surface at the synapse.

(Zinc Deficiency during Pregnancy Linked to Autism in Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Together, these findings show that diet affects osteomyelitis in susceptible mice by altering the intestinal microbiota, which in turn influence IL-1β levels in distant neutrophils.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

This results in an accumulation of intracellular glycerol, which in turn causes water influx and swelling of the cell.

(Ambruticin, NCI Thesaurus)

The cytoplasmic tail binds beta-catenin, which in turn binds alpha-catenin.

(Adherens Junction Assembly Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Activity of this complex is regulated by multiple different cell surface receptor signaling systems, activating WASP, and Arp2/3 in turn to cause changes in cell shape and cell motility.

(Actin Branching Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Once Mthl10 and GBP connect, they initiate the production of proinflammatory proteins, which, in turn, shortens the fly’s life.

(Defending against environmental stressors may shorten lifespan, National Institutes of Health)