Sentence examples for attributed to a deficiency from inspiring English sources

This circumstance is usually attributed to a deficiency in circulating estrogen levels although the underlying mechanism remains elusive.

This may be attributed to a deficiency of moisture supply from the Pacific due to changes in vectors and intensity of the North Pacific currents.

50 These mice weight up to three times more than normal mice and show remarkably high levels of body fat, an obese phenotype now known to be attributed to a deficiency in leptin production or its receptor respectively.

Consequently, the failure to detect variants should not be attributed to a deficiency in the accuracy of the method, which has been successfully utilised to detect both novel and previously described polymorphisms in a similar context [ 20, 27].

The association between salmonella infection in HIV-infection is well-known and has been attributed to a deficiency in the immune system that permits intracellular survival of the bacteria despite presumed adequate treatment [ 24, 25, 36].

A recent study found that cells expressing EGFRvIII had increased resistance to gefitinib in vitro and in vivo, which were attributed to a deficiency in receptor dephosphorylation and constitutive AKT activity (Learn et al, 2004).

The non-stoichiometry could be attributed to a cation deficiency presumably due to OH- replacing O2- excess of O ions (see the XPS results below).

Our Sb2S3 nanotubes will yield a poor morphology and crystal quality when annealed above 400°C, which can be attributed to a sulfur deficiency as a consequence of sulfur loss during the high-temperature annealing without sulfur vapor [35].

The difference in fT(4) concentrations can be attributed to an Se deficiency.

Similar to previous reports [ 18, 37- 40], the impairment in executive attention cannot be directly attributed to a global cognition deficiency in our study.

In such models, expression changes occurring over a short time period (12 72 h) can be more confidently attributed to a direct, primary effect of frataxin deficiency, rather than a secondary degenerative process due to long-term cellular changes.