Oct 26, 2014 13:29
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mechanism of action and resistance biomarkers

English Medical Medical (general)
Hello!

This is from a clinical study, and I have trouble understanding parts of the sentence, might be a typo but client wouldn't respond...

Tumor biopsy will be performed at the time of the first restaging and/or at the time of progression in an optional first and/or second substudy to investigate pharmacodynamics, *mechanism of action and resistance biomarkers*.

Earlier it says:
Tumor biopsy will be performed at the time of the first restaging in an optional substudy to investigate *pharmacodynamic and mechanism of action biomarkers.*

Is here simply an "of" missing?

Thank you!
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Oct 26, 2014 13:35: writeaway changed "Language pair" from "German to English" to "English"

Discussion

uyuni Oct 27, 2014:
@ Michal Berski Irrespective of whether or not your answer might be correct I beg to disagree with "disagrees" posted as long as you provide your own/another answer. This strategy is prone to distortion of the 'competition' and to confounding the asker's perception of who knows better. I remember instances in which I did it too but had to learn...

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mechanism of action and [mechanism of] resistance biomarkers

Biomarker a naturally occurring molecule, gene, or characteristic by which a particular pathological or physiological process, disease, etc. can be identified.

The statement should be read as: "mechanism of action and [mechanism of] resistance biomarkers." THis is similar to the earlier text, "mechanism of action biomarkers."

I do not think there is an "of" missing. Seems okay to me.
Peer comment(s):

disagree Michal Berski : nope
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mechanism of action and resistance biomarkers

The substudy will investigate three issues:
- pharmacodynamics (of the study drug in question) -
- mechanism of action (of the study drug in question)
- biomarkers of resistance (to the study drug in question)
Peer comment(s):

agree Steffen Walter
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Reference comments

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Reference:

findings

"resistance biomarkers" and biomarkers of resistance" both seem to be used

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mechanism of action

stands alone

as a phrase

not sure what your problem is here?

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Novel biomarkers: neuroInflammation
www.neuroinflammation.eu/projects/novel-biomarkers.html
Stroke and MS are complex diseases with several mechanisms contributing ... biomarkers can provide insight into the mechanism of action of a drug and could ...

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I am unable to find much with biomarkers mechanism of action/biomarker mechanism of action

The biomarkers are used to reflect the mechanism of action of the drug...

Biomarkers of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Activity in a ...
broker.edina.ac.uk/294189/1/PMC3934935.pdf
by AH Ree - ‎2014 - ‎Related articles
25 Feb 2014 - ***An optimum biological dose may be the dose that is associated with pharmacodynamic biomarkers reflecting the mechanism of drug action***.


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personally, I think the text is poorly written

If I were you I would find a good bona fide English article on the subject and compare.
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Natalia Volkova
6 hrs
agree uyuni
1 day 1 hr
agree Phong Le
9 days
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