Sentence examples for insensitive method from inspiring English sources

Currently, complement activation is routinely monitored by assessing total C3 levels, which is an indirect and relatively insensitive method.

Ligor et al. [7] determined volatile organic compounds appearing in exhaled air of lung cancer patients by SPME and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, but SPME is a relatively insensitive method and compounds not observed in exhaled breath may be present at a concentration lower than the limit of detection (LOD).

A qualitative assessment of conventional bone scintigraphy with 99mTc methylene diphosphonate is perceived as an insensitive method for monitoring the treatment response of bone metastases, and we postulated that semi-quantitative 18F-fluoride positron emission tomography (PET) might serve as a suitable alternative biomarker of the treatment response.

Differences between species, populations within species, or even temporal dynamics within populations, could be hardly captured with such an insensitive method.

This finding suggests that the lack of AD-related changes in olfactory performance that we found is unlikely to be an artifact or the result of an insensitive method.

GCMS-SPME is a relatively insensitive method.

Historically, direct plating, lysis centrifugation, or freeze thaw approaches have proven to be highly insensitive methods for confirming Bartonella species infection in dogs.

Historically, state-sanctioned executions were carried out by comparatively "insensitive" methods, and also with much more direct community involvement.

With few to no characteristic symptoms and insensitive methods for early detection, curative intervention is rare.

However, most of these studies used insensitive methods of RNA detection (northern blot) [ 9, 11], or the methods were only semiquantitative [ 13, 14] or failed to relate specific gene expression to the basic expression level of housekeeping genes [ 9, 10].

Raman spectroscopy as a noninvasive and water- and air-insensitive method with no requirement for complex sample preparation has also become a very attractive tool for analyzing microscopic samples [ 5].