No attempts to analyze drug company press releases have been made despite descriptions about the poor quality of conference and journal press releases.
Despite descriptions of initial plaque formation on the tooth surface, studies on mature plaque and plaque structure below the gum are limited to landmark studies from the 1970s, without appreciating the breadth of microbial diversity in the plaque.
Despite descriptions of autophagic cell death, there is a consensus that autophagy itself is more usually a survival mechanism and although dying cells can show characteristics of autophagy, this is generally not the mechanism through which the cells die (35).
Despite descriptions in the literature of CT findings in RA peripheral joints [ 12, 26, 34], CT is not a thoroughly validated method in RA, and use of CT as a standard comparator for better validated imaging methods such as MRI and US could therefore be questioned.
Despite a description of her in The New York Observer as a "bleached blonde," she does not look the least bit artificial.
And despite her description of bleeding profusely from her breasts and thrashing against ropes, no cuts or rope marks were found.
Despite the description of the relationship by Julius Nyerere as a great love affair, its immediate result was tribal division and a political row involving Britain, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, and eight years of official British hypocrisy.
But despite his description of the U.S. mission as one of advising and supporting the Iraqi government forces rather than doing the fighting, that's what he's done.
But I detected, despite his description of Brown's opening salvo as part after-dinner speech, part the ramblings of a late-night phone-in on Radio Loonshire", that he had not dipped his laptop in vitriol.
