Of the variables used as predictors of reintubation, none acted either as a preventive factor or as a risk factor.
Personality traits often dictate how individuals react to stress and can act either as a protective factor or a catalyst to developing psychological or physical symptoms.
IGF-1 in the adipose tissue may act either as an autocrine factor [ 48], regulating adipose tissue development and homoeostasis, or in a paracrine manner, regulating survival and function of the surrounding cells, including cancer cells.
In two previous studies significantly higher expression of TGF- β1 was found on the concave side of the curve in the vertebral cartilaginous endplates and articular cartilages of the apical articular processes of AIS patients, suggesting that TGF- β1 is involved either as an etiological factor or a secondary change in the curve development [ 53, 54].
Once in the nucleus, the AHR and its heterodimerization partner, ARNT, can function either as a transcription-factor [ 6], a coactivator [ 7, 8], or potentially as an E3 ubiquitin ligase [ 9].
Martin [ 20] deems that we have to take the negative linguistic form of some items into consideration either as a general factor influencing the factors of anxiety and depression, or as a supplementary factor.
For correlation with the CES-D, we hypothesized that higher scores on the PAID (either as a one or two factor solution) would be positively associated (r = ~0.5) with higher scores on the CES-D.
On the other hand, the symptoms of antisocial personality disorder tend to dissipate beyond the age of 40-50; they do not disappear entirely, but they often lessen either as a result of biological factors or social conditioning.
Mechanistically, ROS, occurring as byproducts of normal cellular respiration and as defence mechanism in the immune system, could act either upstream as a trigger factor of p53 via induction of DNA DSB or as its downstream mediators of apoptosis.
FGF2 acts as a neurotropic factor for a variety of central and peripheral neuronal types, acting either as a mitogen or a differentiating factor.
