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Given the multiplicative interactions of risk factors for thromboembolic disease and the apparently untoward concurrence of two of them—the contraceptive pill and frequent road trips for the preceding 3 y—the rapid occurrence of the clinical event following initiation of the coxib suggests a causative link to the COX-2 inhibitor.
And it needs to, because the statement is one that could be made quite straightforwardly (as part of a briefing, say), by a military professional without any untoward implications, like "It's a good day for driving."
From time to time, mind you, someone spills a cup of cocoa onto the keyboard of a workstation and utters something untoward.
Not wanting to get my hopes up, or embarrass her with untoward advances, I found myself--after she had already quit her job--standing in front of her cubicle.
Oxoguanine has become the benchmark for oxidative DNA modifications; it is arguably the most important mutagenic lesion in DNA (mispairing with adenine during chromosomal replications causes GC → TA transversions) [ 24 ] . It is suggested that untoward oxidative stresses to DNA prompt cell-cycle delay, antiapoptotic, and repair responses.