Sentence examples for A primary deficiency from inspiring English sources

A primary deficiency occurs when an organism does not get enough of the vitamin in its food.

Well-developed BM ultrastructural features were observed at the dermal epidermal junction (DEJ), thus demonstrating successful resolution of a primary deficiency of models previously evaluated for SM studies.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2A, a peripheral neuropathy, and dominant optic atrophy, an inherited optic neuropathy, result from a primary deficiency of mitochondrial fusion.

In order to clarify whether a loss of sIL-6R in cancer tissue was due to a primary deficiency or because of increased consumption, and to evaluate the complexity of the IL-6 system, we measured sIL-6R and sgp130 protein levels in the supernatants of HT-29 cells at various time points, with or without IL-1 β and IL-1RA stimulation.

The seriousness of this threat has been confirmed with reported cases of severe Oka strain VZV infection in a heart transplant recipient (Kraft and Shaw 2006), an HIV positive patient (Kramer et al 2001), and a patient with a primary deficiency in natural killer T cells (Levy et al 2003) among others.

Chondrodystrophic dogs have a primary deficiency of notochordal cells, a study found that large notochordal cells in the nucleus pulposus of chondrodystrophoid dogs formed 13% of the cell population in young dogs and fell to 0.4% in adults, whereas they were the predominant cell type in the nonchondrodystrophoid dogs at all ages [ 8].

No one has mentioned any primary deficiency of the limbus, and yet it is an early embryonic development of obvious importance in increasing the depth of the socket and thereby maintaining stability of the femoral head within the socket.

Alloxan is a specific toxin that destroys the pancreatic β-cells, provoking a state of primary deficiency in insulin without affecting other types of islets.

Although this combination of clinical findings, in particular the leading neurological presentation, is rather uncommon for fatty oxidation defects, 20, 21 there is some clinical overlap with long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency and mitochondrial trifunctional protein (MTP) deficiency which resemble a primary OXPHOS deficiency.

Whether this deficiency was a result of an inadequate concentration of Cu in the diet (primary deficiency), or a result of dietary excess of antagonists (Mo, Fe, Zn, S), interfering with the utilization of Cu (secondary deficiency) [ 1], could not be determined.

We characterised by microarray analysis the expression profile of fibroblasts from seven CoQ10-deficient patients (three had primary deficiency and four had a secondary form) and aged-matched controls, before and after CoQ10 supplementation.