Sentence examples for because a prior study from inspiring English sources

This is because a prior study, which employed non-transplant experimental models, found that the aged host environment impaired the turnover of memory CD44hi CD8+ T cells via heightened BCL-2 expression and higher type I interferon levels [24].

MAC-T cells, which are commonly used in studies of adherent and invasive E. coli, were selected primarily because a prior study demonstrated no difference in the ability of EHEC O157 H7 strains to adhere to human epithelial cells (HEp-2) when compared to several primary intestinal epithelial cell lines of bovine origin [51].

This analysis uses self-reported trauma exposures because a prior study in this population showed discordance between self-report and caregiver report, with caregivers reporting significantly fewer potentially traumatic events.

The gcRMA algorithm was not used, as in differential expression analyses (see above), because a prior study has reported that gcRMA normalization may lead to over-estimation of co-expression relationships [ 102].

Patients in the pramlintide treatment group received 120 μg s.c. before major meals beginning on day 1 because a prior study demonstrated no increased risk of hypoglycemia when fixed-dose pramlintide was added to basal insulin (15).

We chose to study chemotaxis of DCs after observing differences in chemokine receptor levels between treatment response groups and because a prior study 30 suggested that chemotaxis may be altered in HCV infection.

A single injection was selected because in a prior study, a boost at eight weeks did not further improve CMI responses.

Congruent stimuli containing the same letter (either H or S) in both the global and the local levels were not used because results from a prior study (Hedden and Gabrieli 2010) found that inhibitory effects could be estimated from the contrast of incongruent versus neutral.

However, because this source of pollution likely affects cases and controls across the entire study area in a similar manner and because the results of a prior study on this topic did not find an association (Brody et al. 2006), this unmeasured source of pollution should not confound the results of our analysis.

The WHOQOL-BREF was used in this study because it had been used in a prior study and was shown to be suitable in the specific context of Nepal [ 22].

Of note, no prior clinical data were available with the newly developed assay because the prior study used a different assay with a different detection limit (0.35 kUA/L) but with same control curve and units and calibrators 11.