Because of their dual status as patients with psychiatric disorders and as prisoners may have rendered subjects more vulnerable [ 27], the range of coercive factors to which they were exposed may potentially have affected the subjects' ability to provide informed consent.
C-peptide may provide a more effective index of insulinaemia as it is secreted simultaneously and in equimolar quantities with insulin but has a longer plasma half-life, which may render it less subject to individual variation.
The decreased expression of type IX collagen in the cartilage may render the matrix more subject to mechanical forces, thereby resulting in the pathogenesis of human OA.
Thus, whereas prolonged alcohol exposure and withdrawal experiences lead to disturbances in homeostatic regulation of HPA axis function, behavioral sensitization to stress may be critical in rendering subjects more vulnerable to relapse and return to uncontrolled, harmful levels of alcohol consumption.
Throughout their service life, highway bridges are subject to progressive deterioration in performance; an issue that may render the use of these facilities unsafe at some point in time.
Taken together, our results suggest that the decrease in serum PON1 activity due to lead exposure may render individuals more susceptible to atherosclerosis, particularly subjects who are homozygous for the R192 allele.
In practice, the chaotic systems are inevitably subject to some environmental changes, which may render their parameters to be variant.
As a result, Seffner's piece, though more distanced from us than ever in medium, style and subject, has gained a context that may render it more surprising, affecting and disconcerting than when it was made.
Some of the genes involved in reproductive function may be subject to post-transcriptional or post-translational modifications that may render their phenotypic effects undetectable in certain castes or life stages.
