Sentence examples for mean plaque count from inspiring English sources

Without knowing the patient's dementia score, he counted the number of plaques in several fields and calculated a mean plaque count for each brain (Tomlinson interview, 1992).

Although Blessed, Tomlinson and Roth observed senile plaques in the brains of controls and patients with affective disorders, who had mean plaque counts ranging from 1 to 5, patients diagnosed with dementia had a far higher mean plaque count of 20.85, and there was a general 'tendency for performance on the test to decline with increasing plaque formation' (1968: 803).

The neutralizing antibody titer was calculated and expressed as the reciprocal serum dilution (1/dil) reducing the mean plaque count by 50% as calculated by probit analysis.

In a 1978 paper for the British Medical Journal, they claimed that levels of acetylcholine 'decreased significantly as the mean plaque count rose' and that the reduction in acetylcholine 'correlated with the extent of intellectual impairment' measured by standard tests (Perry et al., 1978: 1457).

When the post-mortem observations were combined with BDS scores, Blessed, Tomlinson and Roth claimed to find a 'highly significant correlation between mean plaque counts and scores for dementia' (1968: 804), which they argued dealt a significant blow to the psychodynamic belief that pathological change was of little significance to cognitive decline.

Plaques were counted and mean plaque number of the water control was set to 100%.

This is achieved by quantifying the reduction in number of plaques and mean plaque area, respectively.

Differences in absolute counts (log-transformed) and relative counts of the test taxa between the chewers and nonchewers, for the chronic periodontitis and healthy periodontium groups separately, were tested using multiple ordinal regression, including demographic variables, other oral habits, and mean plaque index as covariates.

For DMFT, labial decalcification, TMJ evaluation, mean plaque score, plaque and salivary MS counts, and broken brackets, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups at any of the time points.

The number of PrP plaques was manually counted, and the mean plaque density in each brain region was calculated.

The baseline and the post-intervention MS counts in plaque and saliva as well as the mean plaque scores and other variables like the number of debonded brackets, DMFT were measured in the control group and test groups.