Sentence examples for deficient means from inspiring English sources

3 Healthcare professionals and patients in rural areas in Canada face numerous problems reduced access to specialised care, 4 8 medical imaging (tomodensitometry (TDM), ultrasound, MRI) 9 10 and intensive care units; geographical distance from specialised centres and deficient means of transportation.

Monocytes cultured in serum of African-American individuals who were vitamin D deficient (mean ~8 ng/mL) mounted an ineffective cathelicidin mRNA response upon exposure to M. tuberculosis, however the supplementation of the sera with 25(OH D (mean ~30 ng/mL) restored the toll-like receptor mediated induction of cathelicidin mRNA.

Between the first and second molars in particular, estrogen-deficient (mean serum E2 < 30 pg/mL) women lost more alveolar crestal bone density compared to estrogen-sufficient (mean serum E2 > 40 pg/mL) women [ 13].

There was also no significant difference in relative HIF1A expression between the SDHB-deficient (mean 7±± 4, range 3 13) and SDHB-intact (mean 9±± 5, range 3 23) wild-type GISTs of expression group 4 (P = 0.2).

And the one that's not – the flatback turtle – is listed as data deficient, which means scientists simply don't know how it's doing.

Rats were made severely iron deficient, by means of an iron-deficient diet.

Finally, using cDNA microarray analysis and confirmation at protein levels, we observed that the U87 GBM cells that were galectin-1 deficient by means of an antisense galectin-1-stable transfection displayed increased protein levels for p21waf/cip1, cullin-2, p53, ADAM-15 and MAP-2 (12).

COX-negative fibers varied between 0 and 20 (mean 5.19) per LPF in paraspinal muscles and between 0 and 8.2 deficient fibers (mean 1.58) in deltoid muscles (Fig.  1a).

Bone mineral density (mg/cm) in the metaphysis was similar in controls and Mg-deficient mice at 2 weeks [171.4 ± 25.5 (8) for controls vs 162.1 ± 47.0 (7) for Mg-deficient animals (means ± S.D. (n))].

Suppressed glycolysis in RP-deficient cells means that lower levels of intermediates are available for the biosynthesis of organic macromolecules.

Overall, 67% of the subjects were vitamin D deficient, with mean levels significantly lower among African Americans (15.9 ng/ml) compared with Caucasians (31.3 ng/ml).