Sentence examples for be secondary to differences from inspiring English sources
We acknowledge that the differences seen between tumor initiation and maintenance could be secondary to differences in the expression of MYC and K-ras from the two different tissue specific promoters and/or may be confined to the particular genetic background of the mice used in our study.
Finally, also the possibility that the unilateral BOLD pattern might be secondary to differences in the behavior directed at the two sides can be excluded.
With two examiners that explanation no longer becomes a possibility, and none of the analyses we report on two examiners can be secondary to differences in case-mix.
The limitations of this study include its retrospective and non-randomised nature, as differences in outcome might be secondary to differences in patient characteristics, and/or confounders such as general improvement in outcomes over time.
Multiple AO systems have described this variation in the cone reflectivity to be secondary to differences in the phase of phototransduction, length of the outer segment, disc shedding, wavelength of the light, and so forth [ 1– 3].
The sparing of the thin filament protein actin in spite of a similar downregulation at the transcriptional level has been suggested to be secondary to differences in protein turnover rate or the upregulation of the small αB-crystalline chaperone protecting actin from degradation [ 8].
The participants in the only previous study of hepcidin levels in patients with Type 2 diabetes had significantly higher serum creatinine and higher BMI than control subjects 16, suggesting that the higher hepcidin levels in patients with Type 2 diabetes were secondary to differences in renal function or BMI.
The observed difference may be secondary to different blood collection procedures: blood was obtained by venipuncture in tubes without anticoagulant in the previous study [ 4] yet by venipuncture in tubes with anticoagulant in the present study.
The difference might be secondary to a difference in the proportion of patients with acute illnesses or to different blood culture ordering systems.
Although this may be secondary to inherent differences in the biology (other genetic or epigenetic changes) of the poor risk patients, it is also possible that allogeneic bone marrow transplant abrogated the prognostic impact of histone acetylation in these patients since a majority of patients with poor risk cytogenetics underwent transplant in first remission.
We speculate that this could be secondary to the difference in the baseline cell specific repertoire of miRNAs, or considering their role and function in the global physiology of the brain, astrocytes and neurons activate different biochemical pathways after ischemia and hence different miRNAs are expressed in each cell type.
