presymptomatic

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Nevertheless, different studies have demonstrated that in several neurodegenerative diseases, specific deficiencies can be detected in presymptomatic gene carrier individuals.

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  1. of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared

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  • In most cases, they had some developmental or electrical abnormality in their heart that went undiagnosed until stress -- in this case vigorous exercise -- caused them to have a cardiac arrest. in previous study of 43 sudden deaths attributed to stress, the vast majority were found to have undiagnosed heart abnormalities or presymptomatic occlusion of the coronary arteries —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • 'Passive stabilization' striatal extracellular dopamine lesion spectrum encompassing presymptomatic phase Parkinson's disease. voltammetric study —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Tumor suppressor heterozygous neural stem / progenitor cultures from presymptomatic mice show aberrant growth advantage and altered differentiation, thus identifying a pretumorigenic cell population. angiogenesis animal-model bioluminescence cns-immunology contrast-agent glioma infiltration interest in-vivo-tracking macrophage molecular-imaging molecular-mechanism mri mr-perfusion ms neural-stem-cells rcbv stem-cells uspio CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • A value of 0.75 is the standard threshold for utility in risk screening; 0.99 is required for presymptomatic diagnosis, the researchers said. —  MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
  • - During the research, BRCA1 presymptomatic genetic testing was offered to 100 individuals in —  Health News from Medical News Today
 

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