The phrase "ages preceding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to time periods that occurred before a certain point in history or a specific event.
Example: "The traditions of the ages preceding the modern era have shaped our current cultural practices."
Alternatives: "previous eras" or "earlier ages".
The most precocious effects elicited by EE were observed at postnatal ages preceding eye opening, and have been hypothesized to depend on differential maternal stimulation received by pups in different environmental conditions.
TERT expression and telomerase activity were increased in the aortae of SHR (spontaneous hypertensive rats) at ages preceding the establishment of hypertension [ 89].
Future studies should also extend our findings and focus on testing the CRND8 mice at ages preceding overt amyloid-β deposition, in an attempt to elucidate whether the impairment in conditioned fear memory in this model contains an age-independent component [ 56], caused by the constitutive expression of the APP transgene.
The intracellular accumulation of AGEs precedes α-Syn-positive inclusion body formation, and extracellular AGEs accelerate the process of intracellular α-Syn-positive inclusion body formation [12].
June-born female Fallow deer were fed ad libitum either 12.5 MJ/kg DM (H, n=29) or 10 MJ/kg DM (L, n=29) in pelleted rations once per day during the winter (approximately 4 10 months of age) preceding puberty.
In the thousands of years of the last Ice Age preceding the current warm epoch, man existed as a hunter-gatherer in a world that looked quite different from today's.
Allayari is challenging the archeologists and mythologists who emerged since the 1970s to argue that no such global-historical matriarchy existed beyond isolated regional confines to justify the feminist myth of a matriarchal age preceding the historically confirmed patriarchal societies that formed during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Middle East.
Animals received unilateral subretinal injections of hNPC or medium alone at an age preceding major photoreceptor loss.
Older age, preceding gastro-intestinal infection, and rapid onset of severe motor weakness have been demonstrated to be adverse prognostic factors [4], [5].
In order to study rescue effects following surgery, donor cells were introduced at P21, an age preceding major onset of photoreceptor loss.
There is a relative paucity of data on gene expression, either by candidate or an array-based approach, on key tissues related to the metabolic syndrome in animals at an age preceding development of the metabolic phenotype.
