The phrase "attractive surrogate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing alternatives or substitutes that are appealing or desirable, often in discussions about representation or models.
Example: "The marketing team decided to use an attractive surrogate to represent the brand in their latest campaign."
Alternatives: "appealing substitute" or "desirable alternative".
Visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VisNIR) is an attractive surrogate to time-consuming and costly classical soil assessment protocols.
The simplicity and ease of collection has also made peripheral blood an attractive surrogate tissue for the discovery of biomarkers of hematologic diseases and a wide range of nonhematologic disorders.
Although transcriptional profiles in such target disease tissues/cells are ideal for such analyses, the complexity of procuring such tissue biopsies/cells and the low amount of RNA from these specimens for standard microarray assays has made whole blood, a practical and an attractive surrogate tissue in clinical research [3], [4], [5], [6], [7].
We are unsure why expression of pS6K1, a downstream protein of mTOR and an attractive surrogate candidate, did not correlate with the clinical efficacy of everolimus, in contrast to pS6Ser240/4.
Because collections of both nasal and buccal epithelial samples are relatively simpler and less invasive as compared to the collection of bronchial epithelium, these tissues become attractive surrogate tissues for toxicology assessment in response to CS exposure.
However, recently, many groups have commenced utilizing sphere (serum-free medium) or colony-forming assays as attractive surrogates in vitro.
Given the inaccessibility of the brain, blood constitutes a particularly attractive source of surrogate molecular markers for this disease.
Although attractive as a surrogate tissue, analyses in whole blood should be cautiously interpreted and stringently validated owing to its cellular heterogeneity [ 68].
Due to their ability to exploit the black-box nature of the problem and the attractive computational simplicity, surrogates have been studied by researchers in multiple scientific and engineering disciplines.
In this context, minimally-invasive blood-based "liquid" biopsies are attractive as a practical surrogate for solid tumor tissue, providing a window into metastatic disease.
Optimal design techniques recently gained a wide popularity in the industry as relatively powerful computers have become broadly available and as attractive tools such as surrogate models and evolutionary optimization went through maturation.
