Support to date for the existence of an hypoxic niche in marrow blood stem cells came from indirect evidence such as expression of the hypoxia protein Hif - 1 and related genes and staining
with surrogate markers of hypoxia.
Not exact matches
Abiraterone's ability to lower levels of prostate - specific antigen, a
surrogate marker for prostate cancer, was slightly greater for patients in the low - dose
with food group when measured at 12 weeks.
Cardiovascular phenotyping between the ages of 60 and 64 years
with carotid intima media thickness (cIMT; a
surrogate marker for cardiovascular events) was used to assess the effect of lifetime exposure to adiposity on cardiovascular risk factors.
Instead they measure
surrogate markers — outcomes that are associated
with a risk of disease — but not a bad outcome itself.
Most importantly, the three clinical intervention trials
with colon polyp recurrence as an end point also failed to show a protective effect against this
surrogate marker for colon cancer (Alberts et al., 2000; Bonithon - Kopp et al., 2000); Schatzkin et al., 2000).