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We used M. smegmatis as the host because it grows much more rapidly than does M. tuberculosis (generation time of 3 hrs vs. 24 hrs), does not require BSL-3 facilities, and is more easily manipulated genetically than M. tuberculosis . One possible advantage of using a surrogate host is that studies could be focused on one particular regulator which might avoid complications due to other regulatory proteins in the cell that may be able to recognize promoters in the library.
One major goal in the field of prevention is the identification of surrogate biomarkers that might rapidly predict the effect of a given agent on the primary end-point of cancer incidence.
Ms. Lewinsky's increasingly creepy mouthpiece, William Ginsburg, cooperates with Time reporters--witness this week's long, generally sympathetic piece on "Monica's World," which portrays Ginsburg as her "surrogate dad" and describes, presumably on some authority, the ex-interns own thoughts (e.g., "You didn't do anything wrong!").
Since differences in brain weight have been shown to be proportional to total brain DNA content and thus total CNS cell number [ 31 32 ] , and since brain weight has been suggested to be a good surrogate measure for total cell number in mice (as in humans [ 28 ] ), we hypothesize that total cell number - particularly in cortex - may be decreased in microgyric subjects.
In the present study, use of gastric acid suppression therapy, a potential surrogate for GERD, was associated with a greater risk of asthma hospitalization only in multivariate analysis that did not control for asthma severity.
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