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The purpose of this study was to determine the immunoreactivity of selected structural proteins in the preterm and near-term ovine fetal brain and the response to intermittent umbilical cord occlusion as a measure of altered cellular growth.

However, our findings showed that mtDNA content, a measure of altered mitochondrial function, was associated with 8-OHdG levels in both maternal and cord blood [ 11, 34].

Because it is not possible to directly measure ROS levels in the tumors in situ, we assessed oxidative stress as an indirect measure of altered ROS production.

Additionally, we calculated the change in root-mean-square fluctuation of all Cα atoms as a measure of altered backbone flexibility following mutation according to ΔRMSF = RMSF (mutant) — RMSF (wild-type).

A pharmacodynamic (PD) end point may be defined as a biological effect that is a measure of altered activity or expression of a molecular target in response to a mechanism-based therapy (Sarker and Workman, 2007).

The IQR for the different time windows for PM10 and PM2.5 is given in Table  2 To explore the functional significance of the association between mitochondrial 8-OHdG with exposure to PM, we evaluated the association between mtDNA content, a measure of altered mitochondrial function, and 8-OHdG levels in maternal and cord blood.

However, altered visual attention for food cues measures only one component of the incentive-salience model and additional study is necessary to examine other measures of altered incentive salience in obesity.

This strategy enables both an anatomical view of cortical reorganisation and quantitative measures of altered connectivity induced by therapy.

Addition of IL-6 is sufficient to reconstitute full expression of some measures of altered CNS function such as burrowing, but not anorexia.

Beyond the structural and functional impacts of the changes we have measured, the sites of altered PTMs may be used to identify enzymes responsible for their modulation, which could be used as prospective drug targets for highly specific AD therapies.

In the absence of late-stage metastases (tumor in bone), we measured the effects of altered plakoglobin expression on an early metastatic event by comparing the number of tumor cells in the bloodstream in mice bearing MCF7 control tumors with those in mice bearing MCF7 3C-3 tumors of equal volume.