1.   Thus, vitamin D and its metabolites inhibit proliferation in normal and premalignant rectal epithelium and suppress growth in a colorectal cancer cell line.

2.   And, he found, the hormone, in relatively high concentrations, can suppress the growth of both the monkey virus and HIV in the laboratory.

3.   At the same time, weak consumer spending in Japan will suppress import growth through next year, economists said.

4.   For half a century, predictions have abounded that Brazil would become a true economic powerhouse only to see growth suppressed by political instability, hyperinflation and protectionism.

5.   If the vitamin were operating as an antioxidant, it would presumably prevent prostate cancers from arising rather than acting at a later stage to suppress their growth.

6.   In Texas, it forms colonies that run rampant, suppressing the growth of native spring wildflowers, botanists say.

7.   She was pursuing a theory that the agent known to suppress tumor growth in these cells might also control an angiogenesis inhibitor protein.

8.   Still, the slump in consumer spending in Japan will suppress import growth through next year, economists said.

9.   Suharto also suppressed the growth of politics, believing the country too fractious and immature for democracy, Schwarz said.

10.   The hormone may alternately feed and suppress cancer growth over the long term, Liao said.