Sentence examples for marker of heavy from inspiring English sources

γ-glutamyltransferase was used as a marker of heavy alcohol consumption.

These changes were used as a marker of heavy metal exposure.

We recommend that future studies collect whole blood in order take advantage of the high sensitivity and specificity of phosphatidylethanol as a marker of heavy alcohol consumption [ 11].

Urinary β2 microglobulin (β2m) has been used as a marker of heavy metal poisoning that includes cadmium, arsenic and lead [ 6].

We used %CDT, a highly specific marker of heavy alcohol consumption (i.e., one that would result in very few false positives) and found that approximately 7% of self-reported abstainers were positive.

The goal of this study was to use a highly specific biochemical marker of heavy alcohol consumption, carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT), to estimate the level of under-reported heavy alcohol consumption among persons initiating ART in Uganda.

This study was designed with the aim to compare sensitivity and specificity of ethyl glucuronide in hair (HEtG) and carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) in serum as markers of heavy drinking.

Particularly the levels of CK, a marker enzyme of heavy metal toxicity was increased three-fold in the sodium selenite induced group when compared to the control and C-PC treated groups.

Our results indicate that HEtG, as compared to CDT measured using different methods, is a selective marker of ethanol heavy chronic use providing considerably higher sensitivity.

hUCMSCs in dMB35 had high gene expressions of myotube markers of myosin heavy chain 1 (MYH1) and alpha-actinin 3 (ACTN3).

Tommaso et al. recently observed that the use of an additional marker (clathrin heavy chain) improved the performance (sensitivity) of the immunomarker panel GPC3 + HSP70 + GS [ 30].