Sentence examples for a more sensitive end point from inspiring English sources
Time to facial muscle recovery may be a more sensitive end point.
To further evaluate the relation between PCB exposure and breast cancer risk, we studied incidence, a more sensitive end point than mortality, in an occupational cohort.
The team found reproductive behavior and success to be a more sensitive end point than fish mortality for measuring chemical contamination in urban streams.
Results for male offspring were not reported in the CD-1 mouse study (Hines et al. 2009), and experimental studies have suggested that reproductive development, but not weight gain, may be a more sensitive end point for males with respect to developmental exposures to PFAAs (Shi et al. 2007).
In contrast, findings have been inconsistent among previous epidemiologic studies that examined late pubertal milestones rather than pubertal onset (potentially a more sensitive end point) and have been limited either by small sample size, cross-sectional design, self-reported pubertal staging, or lack of an exposure biomarker.
In this context, Markey et al. (2001) reported that the VO assay was a more sensitive end point than the increase in uterine wet weight for determining the estrogenic activity of bisphenol A. This finding prompted us to evaluate the effects of 20 different rodent diets containing different concentrations of phytoestrogens on the time of VO in CD-1 mice (Thigpen et al. 2003, 2004b).
In environmental monitoring, SAGE could not only provide a method for quickly categorizing chemicals and assigning a mode of toxic action but also allow more sensitive end points to address specifically gene expression pattern.
One of the key assumptions is that omics changes will provide more sensitive end points for detecting toxicity.
Future investigations will focus on cancer incidence and adverse reproductive outcomes, which may be more sensitive end points in this population.
Effects on individual embryonic organs have not yet been evaluated and could possibly provide even more sensitive end points than whole embryos.
