Sentence examples for burden and composition from inspiring English sources

Nanoparticles targeted to components of atheromatous plaque, permit rapid, noninvasive assessment of plaque burden and composition in patients with vascular disease.

Greater CAD event rates in men than in women could be a result of the differences in coronary artery plaque burden and composition [ 35, 36].

We therefore investigated the impact of TIMP-1 and TIMP-2 knockout on atherosclerotic plaque burden and composition in apolipoprotein E-knockout (Apoe−/−) mice and studied the underlying effects on monocyte/macrophage behaviour.

These studies showed major differences among collection sites in liver burdens and homologue/congener composition of PCBs (Fernandez et al. 2004).

Recently, Copes et al. (2008) and Clark et al. (2007) reexamined the bioavailability of cadmium in oysters and showed the effects of consuming oysters on cadmium body burden and serum elemental composition (selenium, zinc, copper).

The lists ranked by DALYs per capita and by composite ranked burden score vary somewhat in order and composition, since the former is an absolute ranking of total burden across the three diseases.

The nature and composition of inpatient burden at this level may reflect the community burden, more so than that at the larger referral hospitals (provincial, national, and teaching hospitals) that are usually situated in urban centres and thus far removed from the rural communities.

An increased plaque burden and a modification in the composition of arterial layers can hamper arterial elastic behavior.

Following aerosol infection, DO mice indeed varied in survival, morbidity, bacterial burden, granuloma composition, immunological cytokines and neutrophil chemokines.

The plaque burden was semiquantitatively determined by assessing the maximal dimensions and composition of plaque using a scoring system from 0 to 4, as previously described by Rominger et al. [16] (Table  1).

In addition, the technique provides information on atherosclerotic plaque burden and to some extent on plaque composition (8– 10).