Sentence examples for reduced functional competence from inspiring English sources
Here, we sought to provide insight into: (i) Whether extrinsic or intrinsic factors are responsible for the impaired maturation and function of NK cells in aging and (ii) whether there is a correlation between the impaired maturation of NK cells and their reduced functional competence in aging.
Reduced functional loads cause adaptations in organs.
The use of the binding phenomenon between sperm and hyaluronan facilitates the selection of individual sperm with increased developmental and cytoplasmic maturity, nuclear integrity and functional competence thereby reducing the potentially adverse effects exerted by the pathogenesis inherent in the paternal genome.
Moreover, the functional competence of circulating EPCs, as judged by the clonogenic assay, is reduced in sepsis, whereas the levels of circulating pro-angiogenic or EPC-mobilizing factors (like vascular endothelial growth factor, stem cell-derived factor-1, and angiopoietin-2) or both are higher in sepsis than in the control healthy population.
Unfortunately, evidence of long-term encapsulated islet graft survival and functional competence lies behind expectancy.
There were differences in the functional competence of the elongases from different fish species.
Indeed, only the plasmid borne, 30 aa peptide-encoding comI gene of B. subtilis NCIB3610 has been reported as a functional competence inhibitor (Konkol et al. 2013).
The erythroid progenitor cells expanded from peripheral blood were analysed for their functional competence by a virological approach.
The above results prompted us to investigate the role of Sphk-1 on the functional competence of these infected macrophages.
The functional competence of the BBB in Naglu mice at different stages of disease was determined by examining vascular leakage of EB, 961 Da, and albumin, 68 kD.
In the present study, we investigated the functional competence of the BSCB in G93A SOD1 mice modeling ALS at different stages of disease.
