Homocysteine is an amino acid, an intermediate product that builds up when the amino acid methionine cannot be converted to cysteine because an enzyme is lacking or is present in inadequate amounts.
Pathologic staging can have mistakes: tissue can be sampled incorrectly or in inadequate amounts relative to the likely tumor mass by different variables: the person who maintains the biopsy/specimen, the investigator, or the evaluation of the pathologist.
The most obvious is sleep restriction, in which an inadequate amount of time is allowed for sleep.
The most common issues with substandard/counterfeit drugs reported by these studies are shown in table 2. Inadequate amount of active ingredients was the most frequent problem reported.
Introduction: Radiolabelled antibodies and peptides hold promise for molecular radiotherapy but are often limited by low payload resulting in delivery of inadequate amounts of radioactivity to tumour tissue and, therefore, modest therapeutic effect.
The committee concluded that a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism was questionable in one patient (80 year old woman in table 4) based on an inadequate amount of contrast in the re-evaluated spiral computed tomograms.
In a Ukrainian TV interview earlier, he accused the EU of offering his country an inadequate amount in loans to help reform the economy.
To keep the cell population constant as 5000 bacteria (the model assumes a steady state) through generations, the inadequate amount in second generation was restored by picking up genes randomly from the surviving bacteria.
Since such a large proportion of adults in Asia consume an inadequate amount of fruits and vegetables, despite of the abundant availability, education and behaviour change programmes are needed to promote fruit and vegetable consumption.
The first is a result of a deficiency of iron, and the second is a result of impaired production of hemoglobin; in either case there is an inadequate amount of the final product in the red cell.
Isn't that — as Laurs2 from Florida commented in the blog — a "pitifully inadequate" amount?
