Sentence examples for measuring skeletal lead from inspiring English sources

Participants visited the outpatient GCRC of the Brigham and Women's Hospital for measurement of lead content in their bone by K-X-ray fluorescence (KXRF), a noninvasive technique for measuring skeletal lead content that can distinguish among very low lead burdens (Burger et al. 1990).

We are creating a reproducible system to measure skeletal muscle metabolism by non-destructively monitoring the oxygen consumption rate of our tissue engineered skeletal muscle bundles.

Our study highlights the need, besides continuing efforts to eliminate lead from and prevent lead release into environment, for secondary preventive measures, such as dietary calcium supplementation (Ettinger et al. 2009), to reduce skeletal lead accumulation and resultant internal exposure through bone lead mobilization, especially in women of reproductive age.

Moreover, mobilization of accumulated skeletal lead stores back into blood is suspected to be responsible for the apparent limited success of various lead hazard control measures to decrease blood lead levels in exposed children (Burgoon et al. 1995; Rust et al. 1999).

Total GP activity was measured in skeletal muscle biopsy from patient P1 and was undetectable.

The measured human skeletal remains are summarized in Table 1.

The development of new technologies for measuring BMD and more skeletal sites available for assessment, along with an increased knowledge of osteoporosis in men has led to controversy about whether the WHO criteria are appropriate in men.

Maternal skeletal bone lead from prior exposure mobilizes during pregnancy and lactation (Manton et al. 2003).

Soranzo, N. et al. Meta-analysis of genome-wide scans for human adult stature identifies novel loci and associations with measures of skeletal frame size.

Here we report that expression of human TSC1 (hTSC1) in mouse skeletal muscle leads to reduction of muscle mass.

A loss of TWINKLE in heart and skeletal muscle leads to drastic mtDNA depletion.