diagnostic marker

collocation in English

meaningsofdiagnosticandmarker

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diagnostic
adjective
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/ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/us
/ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɑː.stɪk/
medicalspecialized
identifying a particular illness using a combination of signs ...
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marker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmɑː.kər/us
/ˈmɑːr.kɚ/
a sign that shows where ...
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(Definition ofdiagnosticandmarkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Detection and validation of circulating endothelial cells, a blood-baseddiagnosticmarkerof acute myocardial infarction.
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This finding has led to the study of varying gene expression as adiagnosticmarkerfor such tumors.
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Cingulin, as other junctional proteins could be used as a marker of epithelial differentiation, and as adiagnosticmarkerto distinguish adenocarcinomas from squamous carcinomas.
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This hormone is not recommended as adiagnosticmarker, because most teratomas do not secrete it.
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It is found in many tissues, the most notable one being the liver, and has significance in medicine as adiagnosticmarker.
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If a protein is found only in a diseased sample then it can be a useful drug target ordiagnosticmarker.
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For the statistical analyses, 52 bands (including the bands representing the 12 species diagnostic markers) from all seven primers were used.
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Other diagnostic markers have been found to yield prognostic information in recent adult studies.
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The present study has shown that sequences are useful diagnostic markers for species identification independent of developmental stages.
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The long turnaround time would greatly depreciate their value as 'early' diagnostic markers.
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A mechanism for telomere elongation or maintenance is one of the key steps in cellular immortalization and can be used as adiagnosticmarkerin the clinic.
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Unfortunately, many of the diagnostic markers presented here could be homoplasic and not divide species according to their phylogenetic relationships.
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In other preliminary studies, agarose gels revealed diagnostic markers for many of the species.
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In these conditions, we were able to characterize with a reasonable degree of probability all but four of the t haplotypes identified by the two diagnostic markers.
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For our purposes, these bands will be useful as diagnostic markers provided they confer the specificity and sensitivity required for detection and discrimination, regardless of the mode of inheritance.
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In contrast, some diagnostic markers denote major effects that initially appear attractive for selection but upon further investigation deleterious effects associated with a locus make selection impractical.
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Mucins are under investigation as possible diagnostic markers for malignancies and other disease processes in which they are most commonly over- or mis-expressed.
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It covers areas such as clinical biochemistry, molecular medicine, hematology, immunology, microbiology, virology, drug measurement, genetic epidemiology, evaluation of diagnostic markers, new reagents and systems, reference materials, and reference values.
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A lack of diagnostic markers for liver failure make it difficult to predict which patients may experience liver failure and the mechanism of liver failure is poorly understood.
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