Sentence examples for represents damage to from inspiring English sources
At the start of a generation, each individual contains a certain amount of damage d, which was conferred to it by its parent, and which represents damage to subcellular structures, for example, oxidized proteins, or accumulated waste products.
In these patients, the skin cells had the normal complement of chromosomes, indicating that the chromosome defect did not originate in the parents' germ cells but, rather, represented damage to the blood-forming tissues during the life of the patients.
It is usually considered to represent damage to the D1 protein within the PSII complex resulting in inactive reaction centres.
However, these changes also represent damage to the overlying muscle which could induce unwanted symptoms after treatments, such as stiffness or weakness [29].
Their interpretation of these data was that cytolysis following chemoembolisation represented damage to normal hepatocytes.
Not all system perturbations, however, necessarily represent damage to the system.
The elevation of serum concentrations of these enzymes following TACE could equally represent damage to normal hepatocytes, or hepatocytes that have undergone malignant transformation.
Thus, when chemoembolisation is undertaken for tumours that are not derived from hepatocytes, elevation in transaminases must represent damage to normal hepatocytes.
Hence, whereas pseudoprogression may be a form of intra-tumour necrosis, we suspect that the 'acute toxicity' cases described here represent damage to surrounding normal tissues.
Three generic biomarkers of oxidation were measured: lipid peroxides (LP) and carbonyl groups (CO; which represent damage to lipids and proteins, respectively), and AOC of serum (which provides a measure of the overall protection against oxidative damage) [ 11].
The abraded skin was then prepared by gentle scraping with a surgical scalpel blade until a non-bloody glistening skin layer resulted, representing damage to the stratum corneum water barrier.
