The phrase "and second examine" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought and lacks clarity in its intended meaning.
Example: "First, we will analyze the data, and second examine the results for any discrepancies."
Alternatives: "and then review" or "and subsequently analyze".
The aim of this study was twofold; first, provide a comprehensive analysis of DHEA metabolism in human adipocytes and the effects of DHEA and DHEAS on human adipogenesis, and second, examine the effect of DHEA on 11β-HSD1 in human adipocytes and resulting glucocorticoid reactivation based on our hypothesis that DHEA inhibits adipogenesis via 11β-HSD1.
The study aimed to, first, confirm the increased risk of total ('all sites') cancer observed in the preliminary Western Australian study of female burn survivors using the Scottish data; and, second, examine site-specific cancer risk among survivors of burn injury.
Most clinical trials employ fixed-sample designs in which the data of all patients are collected and first examined at the end of the study.
Next, we analyzed the effect of gemcitabine on methylation of endogenous loci and first examined global methylation levels.
On average, 40 infants are newly recruited every year and first examined at the age of 3 months.
Whole brain was dissected and first examined directly without fixation using epifluorescence microscopy (Olympus, Hamburg, Germany) to determine if GFP was being expressed.
We therefore assumed the size of the input DNA to be critical and first examined its effects on the yield of the library.
The Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers (Tollers) in this study, n = 33, were privately owned and first examined at the University Animal Hospital at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SUASS) in Uppsala during January 2002 January 200707.
Then, to verify this result we infected BG01V/NEJ-red cells with Ad-FlagXRCC4115-292 or Ad-EGFP (control) and first examined expression of the XRCC4 protein fragment.
Two Italian rural cohorts of the Seven Countries Study, made up of men aged 40 to 59 years, enrolled and first examined in 1960 in Italy.
The epidemiological material used for this analysis derives from the two Italian rural cohorts of the Seven Countries Study of Cardiovascular Diseases, made up of men aged 40 to 59 years, enrolled and first examined in 1960 [ 32] using standard methods [ 33, 34].
