Sentence examples for acting as an indicator from inspiring English sources

As well, the bioimaging application confirmed that this probe was capable of acting as an indicator to monitor the intracellular GSH.

It is suggested that this oscillatory activity may be subject to modulation in the basal ganglia, with dopamine acting as an indicator of movement-related stimuli that reduces the level of synchronous β activity [20].

While numerous physiological responses (e.g., resting heart rate [1, 2], HR variability [3 5], and inflammatory markers [6]) have been investigated for their potential use as a monitoring tool of physical stress in exercise or as indicators of overreaching/overtraining, a single variable capable of acting as an indicator of exercise-induced physical stress has remained elusive.

The finding that both first trimester ultraviolet radiation and region of birth were independent predictors of risk of multiple sclerosis is consistent with birth region also acting as an indicator of postnatal exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

IGF-I and IGF-II may be indirectly acting as an indicator of sex hormone activity in younger women or they may be directly interacting with oestrogens to increase breast cancer risk.

HMGB-1 is a structural nuclear protein linked to the DNA, promoting the recruitment of mononuclear cells and starting the process of cellular repair [ 11] and acting as an indicator of necrosis and as a proinflammatory cytokine in the processes of ischemia, burn, sepsis, trauma, oncological diseases, and inflammatory illnesses [ 12].

Indeed, May's joint sell-off in commodities and equities echoes similarly timed declines in 2010 and 2011.The more gloomy possibility is that the hedge funds are right and that commodities are acting as a leading indicator of a global recession.

Its expression was related to a poor prognosis in PRCC patients, providing a new potential factor for the differential diagnosis of these two PRCC subtypes and acting as a prognostic indicator.

That is, our estimates of O3 could be acting as a better indicator of regional pollution (and potentially serving as a marker for secondary pollutants) than are our estimates of PM2.5, whereas NO2 is potentially serving as a better marker for relatively fresh combustion emissions, especially traffic.

Agricultural workers are typically exposed to a mix of pesticides, and it is possible that non-cholinesterase inhibitor pesticides may also contribute to (or be responsible for) the decrease in SBP, because AChE inhibition could be acting as a proxy indicator of overall pesticide exposure.

They can have different purposes, ranging from deciding which students go on to which secondary or postsecondary school, to being a core component of accountability systems, designed to find out which schools are doing a better job than others, to acting as a more general indicator of how well a province, a region, or a country is doing over time.