Sentence examples for prophylactic effect for from inspiring English sources
Blocking of the greater occipital nerve (n. occipitalis major) can interrupt accumulated attacks and may have a prophylactic effect for 4 weeks or more.
Clearly, it has to be investigated in further studies whether drugs used in primary headache prophylaxis also have a prophylactic effect for secondary headaches.
Interestingly, they found an association with a positive prophylactic effect for valproate with the C allele of this polymorphism, while with lithium it was with the G allele [ 71].
Further randomised trials are still necessary to evaluate the prophylactic effect of oral B12 for preventing neurological manifestations [ 40].
However, there is >4% nucleotide divergence in the S region among HBV genotypes, which may contribute to the relatively weak prophylactic effect of the vaccine for HBV genotypes B and C that are endemic in most of Asia.
Consequently, our estimate of the protective efficacy of IPTi may be slightly more conservative than that reported by other studies that deducted 3 to 4 weeks post treatment for each episode of malaria to account for the prophylactic effect of the antimalarial treatment.
Recommendations for the former are difficult to make at this time, but encouraging findings for the prophylactic effect of the SERM raloxifene on breast cancer may offer some promise for soy in the latter group (Cummings et al. 1999; Martino et al. 2004, 2005).
With these mutants it demonstrated that the depletion of inositol is essential for the prophylactic effect of Li.
For a prophylactic effect of existing mood-stabilizing drugs a concept of 'predominant polarity' (manic or depressive) can be adopted [ 12].
Although it is well established that parasites are rapidly cleared from the bloodstream after administration of anti-malarial drugs [29], [30], reports on the prophylactic effect of SP (drug of choice for both IPTc and IPTi) against a new infection refer mainly to malaria in pregnancy [35] [37], pointing to a 30% to 60% reduced risk of infection.
Here, we present the results of initial studies using fresh experimental approaches to test for the possible prophylactic effect of digitalis on the heart that is subjected to pressure overload.
