Sentence examples for marker of hormonal from inspiring English sources

Thus, mass increase was casual and, in our opinion, should not be considered a marker of hormonal hyperfunction or of malignancy.

Furthermore, we demonstrated that modulation of Cx43 expression in the prostate could serve as a sensitive marker of hormonal disruption during different developmental stages.

Moreover, we demonstrated that modulation of Cx43 expression in the prostate could serve as a sensitive marker of hormonal disruption on different developmental stages, since deregulation of this protein was found in all experimental groups.

The interaction with number of deliveries is consistent with density as a marker of hormonal alteration of breast cancer risk, and therefore for its potential as an early indicator of hormonal prevention, as are the suggestive but nonsignificant interactions with BMI, age at first delivery and breast feeding.

TFF1 is an oestrogen-responsive gene (Masiakowski et al. 1982, May & Westley 1986 , 1988 that has utility as a marker of hormonal response in breast cancer patients, but it has not found widespread use (Foekens et al. 1990, Henry et al. 1990 , 1991 Schwartz et al. 1991, Spyratos et al. 1994, Soubeyran et al. 1996).

Studies regarding association of CYP17 c.1-34T>C and circulating hormone levels as well as markers of hormonal status (i.e. age at menarche or menopausal hormone use) have recently been reviewed [ 39].

Characteristics of cells that are associated with the hormonal dependence of tumours are described, and it is shown that clonogenicity and hormone-induced proliferative response of breast tumours are as good markers of hormonal dependence as is oestrogen receptor.

The aim of this study was to investigate the possible urinary markers of hormonal activity in patients with non-functioning adrenal incidentalomas.

Preferably, such studies should be planned longitudinally to increase our knowledge on whether early markers of hormonal disturbance may have a lasting effect into puberty and adulthood.

Interestingly, the role of several markers of hormonal impregnation such as male premature pattern baldness, history of acne in childhood or teenage years and hypofertility/infertility have also been explored in prostate cancer pathogenesis with contradictory results [ 48- 51].

This finding suggests a model that considers mammographic density as an integrated marker of many different hormonal and non-hormonal influences on breast tissue composition, and is also supported by work examining relationships between mammographic density and non-genetic breast cancer risk factors.