Sentence examples for function as a marker from inspiring English sources

We questioned whether the change in proteinuria in response to a supplemented very low protein diet (SVLPD), which is known to reduce proteinuria, could function as a marker of the potential renoprotective effect of an SVLPD.

And he continues to function as a marker of the limits of the entertainment industry's tolerance.

Prominin-1, a heavily glycosylated pentaspan membrane protein, is mainly known for its function as a marker for (cancer) stem cells, although it can also be detected on differentiated cells.

In other words, in the rabbit nervous tissue Map5 seems to function as a marker for young, dividing synantocytes/polydendrocyte-like cells that, due to their spatial distribution and molecular profile, could be a reservoir of proliferating, multipotent progenitor cells within the cerebellum of lagomorphs (see below).

To block caveolar-mediated endocytosis in HeLa cells, we expressed two GFP-tagged versions of caveolin-1: a construct with C-terminally fused GFP (Cav-GFP) that was shown to function as a marker for caveolae, and an N-terminally tagged version (GFP-Cav) that acts as dominant negative mutant inhibiting caveolar-mediated endocytosis [31].

RNA oxidation could be an epiphenomenon rather than a contributing pathophysiological mechanism, but it would still function as a marker of generalized intracellular oxidative stress.

As a positional good, the diamond engagement ring functions as a marker of class, and at this stage it works to highlight, rather than erode, social and economic disparity.

These elements serve two functions: as a marker of some special status of the clause (i.e. textual) and as an element in the experiential structure (i.e. topical) (Alyousef 2015a).

In America and Europe, Holocaust mongering serves the empire by functioning as a marker for absolute evil.

TEX14 localizes to all intercellular bridges in the testis and therefore functions as a marker protein of intercellular bridges.

However, in ovarian carcinoma, ALDH has been found to be a favorable prognostic factor [17], suggesting that ALDH functions as a "marker" of aggressive tumour cells in some contexts, but not in others.