Earlier studies documented a survival benefit associated with higher BMI in dialysis patients (46, 47); however, BMI may represent higher muscle mass or it may represent higher fat mass.
Seeking giant muscle mass may represent an attempt to solidify fragile self-esteem.
Given that the energy costs of protein turnover can account for 20 to 40% of the basal metabolic rate [19], any modulation of the fat-free mass may represent an important strategy of energy economy that will maintain fitness at a lower body size.
In a patient with myasthenia gravis, enlargement or a focal mass may represent either lymphoid hyperplasia or thymoma.
This molecular mass may represent a homo- or heterooligomerization of the protein core, quite similar to that observed by Hamon et al. (Mr 56 kDa) [ 34].
In addition, in MPM the primary pleural tumour generally spreads in a confluent, sheetlike manner, and in the hilar and mediastinal regions can become inseparable from adjacent nodes; a hilar mass may represent adenopathy or the pleural tumour itself.
A recently described positive association of plasma acylated ghrelin with blood pressure and left ventricular mass may represent a compensatory mechanism to overcome the development of heart failure in patients with metabolic syndrome (60).
In NSC34 cells, a band of approx. 70 kDa was also seen, which may represent a lower-molecular-mass isoform of the protein.
This paper studies dynamic characteristics of a beam with continuously distributed spring-mass which may represent a structure occupied by a crowd of people.
Conversely, post-therapy FDG-PET may be of use in excluding the need for further investigation, such as biopsy, in patients with uncertain clinical findings, such as residual masses that may represent either viable tumour or radiotherapy-induced fibrosis, but a CMR.
