Our 2002 study was prompted, in part, by clinical observations that certain As patients had more severe symptoms than would be expected given the levels of As in their drinking water, suggesting possible synergistic effects from other toxins, such as antimony (Sb), as well as deficient quantities of beneficial elements such as selenium (Se) and zinc (Zn).
Under pathologic conditions of the adrenal cortex in which the hormone aldosterone can be either secreted in excess or in deficient quantities.
Abnormal sleep that can be described in measures of deficient sleep quantity, structure (reflected by, for example, sleep cycle architecture) and/or sleep quality (assessed using, for example, spectral electroencephalogram power).
'Defective' seed was thus both deficient in quantity and in quality, being 'vitious, or unfit for Generation'.
Causes of stunting are well known and range from poverty at the societal and household levels to the interaction between diets deficient in quantity or quality and infection at the individual level (1).
Deficient quality and quantity of saliva have a detrimental consequence for dental and oral health.
Once ChEs become critically deficient in quality and quantity, ACh signaling will be uncontrollably aberrant and persistent.
Data available for training a neural network may be deficient not only in quantity of data but entire independent variables with their data may be missing such as is often the situation for software engineering data.
Palliative medicine has made rapid progress in establishing its scientific and clinical legitimacy, yet the evidence base to support clinical practice remains deficient in both the quantity and quality of published studies.
We demonstrate here in a larger case-control study that women with breast cancer are deficient both by presence and quantity of FMc in the peripheral blood compared to carefully matched controls.
