Sentence examples for more general marker from inspiring English sources

Thus, more than strictly related to migraine pathophysiology, lack of habituation could represent a more general marker of neural dysfunction that migraine can share with several other diseases.

S100[ 24] is a more general marker for glial cells.

Although we could not recruit acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients into this study, ARDS could be an additional control to determine whether PGRN is a more general marker of acute respiratory inflammation.

Levels of YKL-40 in CSF are also increased following stroke, and in other neurological disorders, indicating that it is not specific for AD but instead seems to be a more general marker for inflammation [ 8, 19, 28, 29].

Whether IL-8 acts as a more general marker of stress or whether it is specifically involved in the physiological stress response of patients with RA is not yet clear.

We aimed to replicate the initial finding of Oct-6 expression in the brains of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and to extend this finding to bipolar disorder and major depression in order to determine whether Oct-6 expression was specific to schizophrenia or a more general marker of psychosis.

Furthermore, it should be noted that additional studies are needed to determine whether the markers identified here are specific for modulation of inflammation through inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis or if they are more general markers of inflammatory modulation.

Further global analyses of gene expression changes associated with different types of ARF will be necessary to define genes which are potential hallmarks of specific mechanisms of UN-renal injury and which are more general markers of renal damage.

Confocal microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction allowed detailed examination of the colocalization of BM-derived cells with the proximal tubule marker LTA, or the more general epithelial marker pan cytokeratin.

Interestingly, miR-194 was recently found to be elevated in the serum of a mouse model of diffuse-type gastric cancer, suggesting that it may be a more general circulating marker of malignancy (Rotkrua et al, 2013).

On the basis of the result in the current study, together with results from earlier studies on ovarian cancer (9, 10, 18) and Barrett's oesophagus (21), we believe that nuclear texture is a more general prognostic marker that is promising because of its ability to measure large scale genomic instability in cancer cell nuclei.