Sentence examples for causing shortening from inspiring English sources

Frb1, a secreted form of Frizzled that is a Wnt receptor, can function as an antagonist when misexpressed in long bone, causing shortening of skeletal elements, joint fusion, and delayed chondrocyte maturation [12].

One case was reported where patient walked on the 28th day, causing shortening and deformity; settled for $500.

Similarly, acute exposure to long chain fatty acids has been shown to cause a decrease in cardiomyocyte contractility through effects on increases in voltage gated K+ currents thus causing shortening of the action potential [ 2].

Incomplete intertrochanteric fractures that do not cross the midline on the mid-coronal image are known to be stable, without causing shortening of the lower limb or external rotation deformity on examination [ 15].

Thus, retention causes shortening of microrods indicating that ZnO microrods dissolve back into the solution.

E. acervulina causes shortening of villi and reduction in the intestinal absorptive area, affecting broiler growth.

Wound contracture after operation can cause shortening of the soft palate and may result in velopharyngeal insufficiency [28].

The OT treatment caused shortening of the milking time, increasing of peak milk flow rate and milk yield in thirty seconds in both groups.

However, the efficiency of radiative recombination in the NWs is found to degrade at elevated temperatures due to the activation of the competing NRR process that also causes shortening of the PL decay time.

Lower fractions of active actin also cause shortening of cables (Fig. 3C), and slowing down of cable retrograde flow (Fig. 3D).

The drawback of this approach is that it causes shortening of the tendon ends.