The phrase "alterations contributes to" is not correct in written English.
It should be "alterations contribute to" to match the plural subject with the plural verb form.
Example: "The alterations contribute to the overall improvement of the project."
Alternatives: "changes lead to" or "modifications result in".
In conclusion, the present study suggests that increased SNS activity and PAP, in the absence of CBF alterations, contributes to pulmonary edema in isolated cerebral hypoxia.
These results imply that neither of these genetic alterations contributes to the development of most lung cancers, in contrast with their role in many cases of HNPCC (Aaltonen et al, 1993).
It is widely accepted that the accumulation of genetic and epigenetic alterations contributes to cancer initiation and progression.
Further studies are necessary to clarify whether the close association of CEBPAsingle-mut with CD56 expression and other poor-risk gene alterations contributes to the poorer outcome of this group of patients.
In some tumours, the biological activity, organization or expression of these genes is altered, suggesting that such alterations contribute to the development of neoplastic disease.
Genetic alterations contribute to the leukemic transformation of hematopoietic stem cells or their committed progenitors by changing cellular functions.
Therefore, in this study univariate statistical test was used to determine gene alterations contributing to the increased level of resistance/sensitivity to a given drug.
Changes in the cell population embody the characteristic of cancer plasticity, which could explain how genetic alterations contribute to EGFR or ALK resistance.
New evidence suggests that physiological alterations contributing to chronic pain states take place both in the peripheral and central nervous systems.
These alterations contributed to neutralize the negative effects of tannic acid and maintain body mass in animals supplemented with tannic acid.
Recent studies investigating the genetic determinants of cancer suggest that some of the genetic alterations contributing to tumorigenesis may be inherited, but the vast majority is somatically acquired during the transition of a normal cell to a cancer cell.
