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Although speculative, it is tempting to propose that HPT and HGEC may be early targets of Stx-1 and that this could play a role in the pathophysiologic processes that characterize renal injury in HUS.
The author barely bothers to characterize England under siege (he was more evocative when his settings were farther from home, as they almost always were); and the last third--in which the atheistic Maurice has his face rubbed in the rightness of Sarah's faith--feels like a denouement, not a climax.
In vitro culture systems of neuronal tissues have been used to characterize the biology of the Hh-signaling pathway.
The combination of microarray data and cluster analysis to make a genetic portrait of a disease has been used to characterize breast tumors [ 9], to categorize the subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma [ 10], and to identify genes whose expression is associated with mitotic misregulation and human aging [ 11].
We characterize unintelligible speech by saying, “That's Greek to me,” the Russians and Rumanians by “That's Chinese to me,” the French by “That's Hebrew to me,” the Germans by “That's Spanish to me,” and the Poles by “I'm listening to a Turkish sermon.”