For example, it has been reported that pre-heating the biomass raw materials before pressing could reduce the power requirement for pressing of briquettes [3].
Indeed, it has been reported that pre-conditioning with L-LPS facilitates neutrophil NET formation, thus favoring bacteria clearance (Landoni et al., 2012).
It has been reported that pre-membrane (prM -reactive antibodies do not efficiently neutralize DENV infection but instead prM -reactiveote antibodiesion.
It is known that lower limb power affects physical functioning following knee arthroplasty, and clinically it has been reported that pre-operative physical ability is relevant to post-operative physical outcome.
Moreover, it has been reported that pre-operative renal dysfunction is a risk factor for postoperative complications, including AKI and cardiovascular disease [ 15], leading to prolonged morbidity or hospital stay [ 28] and to increased mortality [ 16].
It has been reported that pre-stimulation of MSCs with IFNγ may have the desirable effect of augmenting MSC immunosuppression in vitro [ 53]; however, it is clear that the inflammatory milieu of CIA does not facilitate this phenomenon.
Strengthening this theory, it has been reported that pre-operative serum TF levels of ovarian cancer patients are around 85.2 pg/mL, significantly higher than levels found in patients with low malignant potential tumors (12.8 pg/mL) [ 47].
Effects of other anticancer agents are improved by the administration of vitamin D: it has been reported that pre-treatment of breast cancer cells with vitamin D enhances the cytotoxicity of doxorubicin [ 46], lowers the threshold for taxol-induced cell death [ 47] and enhances the growth inhibition effect induced by cisplatin in MCF-7 cells [ 48].
More recently, it was reported that pre-treatment with mild metal exposure can activate the adaptive response to neurotoxicity of locomotion behavior induced by subsequent severe metal exposure in nematodes [28].
In previous large multicenter studies involving patients with epithelial ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer, it was reported that pre-therapeutic plasma fibrinogen levels could be used as an independent prognostic parameter for disease-free and overall survival [ 24, 25].
