Sentence examples for obscure increases from inspiring English sources

Moreover, cystamine, acting via mechanisms that are still obscure, increases levels of the versatile antioxidant glutathione, providing another rational mechanism for its salutary effects in HD (Mao et al, 2006), where oxidative stress has been well documented (Browne & Beal, 2006).

Since pads and tampons absorb fluid, they can obscure gradual increases or decreases in volume, which in turn might delay diagnosis.

They ensure rich retirement pay for executives, and with limited disclosure, because companies can bundle all their pension liabilities, obscuring the increases aimed at senior managers.

MoMA's interest in having a slush fund is diverse: whether it be to obscure the increasing disparity between the fundraising mechanisms of major and minor art institutions (who do more with less); ward off organized action by low-paid museum staff; or defer attention from its (outrageous) $20 admission price.

The genomic basis of teleost phenotypic complexity remains obscure, despite increasing availability of genome and transcriptome sequence data.

One suggested explanation of this discrepancy is that in experimental conditions where cardiac fibroblasts were plated on top of a cardiomyocyte monolayer, the latter may have still had significant endogenous/interspersed fibroblast content which might be high enough to obscure the increasing CV phase.

Such a pattern is more pronounced in the proximal part of a surface, while toward the distal zone the patterns tend to be obscured by increasing amounts of mottled and gley soils.

In addition, Bat3 is located predominantly in the nucleus in the cell lines used in our study, obscuring any increase in levels of total Bat3 protein or nuclear Bat3 protein that might have been induced by BMP treatment.

A few obscure cosmetic operations increased in 2009, despite their not-insignificant cost.

WASHINGTON — An obscure proposal to increase federal insurance on bank deposits won the support of the Bush administration, both presidential candidates and Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday, in a major lobbying coup for community banks.

Noise in topographic data obscures features and increases error in geomorphic products calculated from DEMs.