The panel said it had relied largely on the testimony of Kelli White, an American sprinter, and on what it described as abnormal blood tests and evidence of possible masking of tests by Montgomery.
Other contributing factors include possible masking of low amplitude biological signals by self-generated noise from the platform instrumentation and ship noise.
The issue of the safety of providing analgesia for patients with acute abdomen is marked by longstanding controversy over the possible masking of clinical findings and delaying diagnosis [8 10].
Our use of a flow cytometric purification of proliferating epithelial cells may explain this higher frequency since it eliminates possible masking of a mutation signal by the presence of genotypically normal stromal cells.
Definitive information is required to understand the ecology of influenza and the possible masking of disease signs caused by H5N1.
In this study, we utilised much lower doses of cisplatin to avoid possible masking of RIT effects and the toxicity of the combination treatment.
Results obtained with the longer peptide K156-E (Fig. 2A) shed light on the question of the epitope/α4-helix accessibility to antibody and the possible masking effect of the well known flexible loop (residues 140 147) before the α4-helix.
Bolton-Maggs points to the possible masking role of megaloblastic anemia with regard to HS [ 3].
To avoid a possible masking effect of MD, which might produce a false-negative result at screening, the analysis was repeated by taking only case-control sets with interval cases diagnosed more than 12 months after mammographic assessment (225 cases).
Observations of stronger associations between MD and more advanced tumors (for example, large size, node-positive) could perhaps reflect a possible masking effect because of reduced mammographic sensitivity and consequent delay in diagnosis [ 20, 22, 23].
