(1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
(2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
(5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
(15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.
Predisposed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Predispose
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(2) Active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is associated with immunosuppression and predisposes to the development of life-threatening superinfections in immunocompromised patients.
(3) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
(4) We reviewed the pre-Vietnam contents of the service medical and personnel records of 250 Vietnam combat veterans, in an attempt to identify factors predisposing to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(5) In addition to a better understanding of pathogenic mechanisms associated with autoimmunity, the knowledge of these disease-predisposing genes is expected to permit a better classification of often complex syndromes as well as the design of new treatments.
(6) The patients lacked the usual predisposing factors to mucormycosis, ie, diabetes and acidosis, but both had liver disease.
(7) In addition, the postulated personality for PD may predispose to hard work, perspiration, and increased exposure to putative trace elements in the water supply.
(8) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
(9) Predisposing factors were coagulopathy and forceps extraction after prolonged labor.
(10) Patients with primary hypogammaglobulinaemia have previously been thought not to be more susceptible to Salmonella infection but a combination of low gastric acidity and impaired humoral immunity may predispose them to such infection.
(11) These observations suggest that IDDM patients have reduced fibrinolytic activity in their retinas, which might predispose them to thromboembolic disease.
(12) One hundred eighteen consecutive patients undergoing valve replacement for aortic stenosis were analyzed to determine the incidence of and predisposing factors to postoperative atrial tachyarrhythmias.
(13) Smoking, which predisposes to peptic ulceration, also appears to reduce mucosal prostaglandin synthesis.
(14) A child should be tested for lupus anticoagulant or anticardiolipin antibody if venous or arterial occlusion occurs without a known predisposing cause, or if there is pulmonary embolism or symptoms or laboratory findings suggestive of a connective tissue disease.
(15) The factors predisposing to and complicating acute renal failure (ARF) in the medical intensive care unit (ICU), and their relative influence on outcome during ARF are unclear.
(16) A large number of factors have been identified which seem to predispose an individual to develop melanoma.
(17) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(18) These findings of enhanced breakage by FUdR exposure in vitro, nevertheless, may suggest that leukemic cells in general are more susceptible to breakage than normal cells, thereby predisposing the former to secondary chromosome rearrangements.
(19) A search was made for predisposing factors and sequelae of diet-induced obesity (DIO) or resistance to DIO (DR).
(20) As a result of calculations genetically predisposed to seizures KM rats were assumed to differ from unpredisposed to seizures Wistar rats in the increase of efficacy of neuronal interactions (excitatory and inhibitory) as a consequence of the enhanced neuronal "reactivity".