They assessed gene activity at time points known to correspond with
key phases of disease: the «induction phase,» the time before the peak level of photoreceptor cell death; the «execution phase,» when the highest rates of photoreceptor cell death occur; and the «chronic phase,» during which photoreceptor cell death continues at somewhat reduced levels.
Not exact matches
A
key feature
of STB is the long symptomless growth
of the fungus — called Zymoseptoria tritici — which can affect the host plant's cells before it switches to the visible
disease phase that eventually destroys the plant's leaves.
Because cyclodextrin treatment in humans is safe (FDA approved application
of 2 hydroxypropyl - β - cyclodextrin for the treatment
of Niemann - Pick
disease, type C.
Phase I clinical trial) and cyclodextrin beneficially affects
key mechanisms
of atherogenesis, it may therefore be used clinically to prevent or treat human atherosclerosis http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/333/333ra50.