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Angiogenesis is the growth of blood vessels from a pre-existing vessel bed.
Over the past 25 years, the Postal Service has filed many such mail classification requests with the Commission, seeking either to establish new postal products or to reconfigure pre-existing services.
The specification would conform to pre-existing standards for creating XML vocabularies and well-formed XML documents.
To assess if uncertainty regarding a clinical question exists, researchers should evaluate the totality of pre-existing knowledge: if we already knew that one treatment is superior to another, nothing new could be learned and we would unnecessarily expose our patients to already known inferior treatment by performing a new trial.
Interestingly, the increase in CD8 T cell number also corresponded with an increase in HIV-specific responses as measured by interferon-gamma expression (data not shown), which in light of an absence of effect on viral load between arms further supports that TI strategies alone may not significantly alter the pre-existing balance between viral replication and host antiviral responses [14,16,23,24].