Sentence examples for may confound interpretation from inspiring English sources

Although systemic administration of heparin can ameliorate this problem, heparin use has many additional actions that may confound interpretation of the hemorrhage experiments.

Both spatial and temporal variability in ecosystem structure is expected to influence molecular responses to environmental stressors, and it is important to recognize how these variables, as well as individual factor (i.e. sex, age, maturation), may confound interpretation of network responses to chemicals.

However, the study of agricultural legacies is complicated by non-random land-use decisions: areas selected for agriculture commonly differ from non-agricultural areas in ways that may confound interpretation of agricultural legacies (e.g., agricultural areas may have more productive soils).

Enhanced P-glycoprotein (P-gp) activity has been reported in epilepsy and this may confound interpretation of clinical scans if [11C]flumazenil is a P-gp substrate.

However drug treatment, chronicity and cause of death, may confound interpretation and such studies cannot easily probe causative mechanisms.

In addition, at enrolment, differential recall bias for data recorded in the past may confound interpretation.

Temporal environmental variability may confound interpretations of management actions, such as reduced fisheries mortality when Marine Protected Areas are implemented.

However, Vti1b knockdown did slightly decrease endocytosis, which may confound interpretations of the exact functions of Vti1b.

The differences in the effect of ilp-RNAi relative to the two control strains caution that background genetic effects may confound interpretations on how ilp reduction affects aging because overall survival should be sensitive to deleterious effects of mutation at potentially thousands of genes affecting any aspect of viability (Tatar, 1999).

In some previous human studies, olfactory mucosal cell transplantation has been accompanied by rehabilitation therapies (Chhabra et al., 2009; Lima et al., 2010), which in themselves may have a beneficial effect on outcome and may thus confound interpretation of the origin of the observed effects.

In such cases, adaptive inherited variability (which in the case of animals is likely to include differences in coping style) may well confound interpretation of pooled results.