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"a stage preceding" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe a stage or period of time that came before the current one. For example: - "The situation had worsened during the stage preceding the new government's takeover." - "During the stage preceding the Renaissance, Europe was still recovering from the Black Plague." - "In the play, the main character reflects on the events of the stage preceding his rise to power."
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For Frazer, the search led to magic, a stage preceding religion.
One clinical study suggested that patients with AD have low whereas those with mild cognitive impairment (a stage preceding clinical dementia) had intermediate BDNF levels compared to normal controls[37]; others have suggested raised BDNF levels in early AD[38], [39].
These cells are negative for Six2 and Ncam1, suggesting that they are at a stage preceding the progenitor stage or have differentiated to a completely different fate.
This can be explained by either this mesenchyme originating from the nephron progenitor cells but differentiating to a completely different cell fate, or the expanded mesenchyme originating from a stage preceding the nephron progenitor stage.
Inhibition affected a stage preceding cDNA synthesis: detection of RTC/PIC was dramatically reduced in cells infected for 4.5 hr in the presence of 10 µM PF74, and this result was confirmed by quantitative determination of HIV-1 specific cDNA using PCR.
Based on a delayed insulin secretion in CF, which might be relevant to both a hypoglycemic as well as a hyperglycemic response to a glucose challenge (4), we hypothesized that the hypoglycemic response to a glucose challenge could indicate a stage preceding CFRD.
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This is because gene neutralization is a transient stage preceding actual pseudogenization, whose detection requires a high phylogenetic resolution and, thus, investigation of a large set of closely related endosymbiont strains.
These include a gene signature for a primitive ectoderm-like stage that appears after ES cells enter differentiation, and three gene signatures for subsequent stages of neural progenitor development, from an early stage that follows neural induction to a final stage preceding terminal differentiation.
After confirming that increasing weight in the communication layer is very likely an intermediate stage preceding the formation of ties in the nomination, we can observe how some edges in the nomination layer emerge gradually over time, from mere collocation to communication finally leading to nomination as cognitively salient contact.
These structures could represent an intermediate stage preceding the development of mouse PanIN.
The most promising finding paving the way for potential preventive therapy relates to the more recent concept of a systemic prodromal stage preceding synovitis.
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