Whether nuclear GDF5 plays any role in dendrite growth regulation or whether it performs some other function remains to be ascertained.
Nevertheless, the specific functions of these miRNAs in embryogenesis remain to be ascertained.
"The cause of the haemorrhage remains to be ascertained.
By characterizing the natural course of pathological change evident in these models, information pertaining to morphology and function can be ascertained for individual diseases.
A more direct assay of channel function can be ascertained from their ability to provide resistance to hypoosmotic shock.
Transcripts for which a putative amino acid sequence could be deduced and predicted function could be ascertained were submitted to GenBank (EU551603– EU551603).
For 18 of the 20 C3H1 genes, specific functions could not be ascertained due to lack of orthologs in model species (Additional file 1).
A modified Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) survey [ 12] will be administered to each facility by a member of the research team and the performance of EmOC functions will be ascertained by interviewing key staff.
However, since many of the homeobox and morgenetic proteins (Table 4) are homologues of proteins with functions ascribed to higher organisms, their precise function in A. digitifera cannot be ascertained by KEGG orthology alone.
He said the method should be useful in any kind of genetic engineering where genes must be inserted at a specific site, and in any genome project where the function of an unknown gene could be ascertained by disrupting it.
