However, when the test has been used to assess whether chronic stress can affect behavioral "despair" and, hence, depression-like behavior, a single session has proven sensitive to evidence increased behavioral immobility in depressed animals [50], [51].
This problem-solving test is simple to perform and has proven sensitive to nutritional interventions in infants (40, 41).
Sample size calculation is based on the SCL-90, since the SCL-90 has proven sensitive to change through psychological face-to-face intervention in fatigued cancer survivors [ 36] and information on sensitivity to change of the CEQ is unknown.
Programming can be initiated even during the periconceptional period: the preimplantation embryo has proven sensitive to environmental perturbation mediated through maternal diet or in vitro culture, with concomitant postnatal dysfunction of cardiovascular, metabolic and behavioural systems [ 2- 6].
It was designed specifically for people with type 1 diabetes using modern insulin regimens and has proven sensitive to differences between various insulin regimens, as well as between conventional insulin treatment and insulin pump therapy (12, 17).
The Willatts Infant Planningg Test was chosen because it has proven sensitive to past nutritional interventions in infants (46, 55) and has been successfully used in low-income countries (44, 45) where it has, for example, allowed the detection of differences between groups of infants aged 7 mo after a 2-mo psychosocial intervention (44).
One of my mentors suggested that I speak with a senior faculty member, Dr. R. Bruce Dunlap, who was experienced in such situations and who had proven sensitive to the needs of graduate students at all levels.
Parvoviruses are non-pathogenic in humans, but human tumor cell lines have proven sensitive to the lytic activity of H-1PV in vitro.
Lactate analyses have proven sensitive to sample handling and calibration.Lactate concentration is significantly higher in plasma than in erythrocytes[ 23, 24]resulting in a 30 to 40% difference between plasma and whole blood [ 25].Measurements are, therefore, easily affected if the sample is not immediately stored on ice to minimize the additional lactate production in erythrocytes.
The primary aim of this study was to examine the concurrent and convergent validity of CogState between the Test of Variables of Attention and the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (second edition) which have proven sensitive to the neurocognitive effects of severe malaria and HIV in our studies in Uganda [ 3, 17– 20].
