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Ikuta et al have shown that osteopenia was an independent risk factor for worse prognosis but only borderline significance for RFS in colorectal cancer liver metastases [ 11 ].

It is observed that as the number of nodes increases, the impact of limited bandwidth becomes markedly significant, resulting in longer propagation times.

burgdorferi -stimulation was comparable to PBS, while LPS induced a highly significant increase in expression.

The body weight gain of db/+ mice on high fructose diet showed a trend of reduction in body weight of mice treated with PTM at 100 mpk, while food intake was not affected during the 29-day treatment of PTM in drinking water ( Fig 3D and 3E ).

It is worth mentioning that the isotherm of NaA zeolite ( Fig 3 ) shows a negative trend in gas adsorption; this may be due to the pores of the zeolite being blocked, preventing the correct adsorption of the gas.

Despite the lack of a clear trend in the associations and predictive ability of total versus free testosterone, evidence from Asian populations does appear to be consistent in identifying that free testosterone, but not total testosterone, has a significant inverse association with age [ 4 , 21 , 22 ]; this is also consistent with the present study.

The interaction between Condition and Group was marginally significant.

Quite significant differences in the genome sizes of different A . thaliana accessions have been detected by propidium iodide staining of nuclear DNA [ 19 ], indicating early on that not only SNPs and InDels contribute to genome variation.

suggest that there may be significant gaps in service availability for BIPOC survivors in the mid-Western United States [ 20 , 47 ].

The global DNA hypomethylation was observed across all of the spontaneous and radiation-induced carcinomas; however, there was a set of 44 genes which showed highly significant tumor-specific increases in DNA methylation (with changes in gene expression) that were enriched for cellular differentiation, development and transcription factor activity.

Our gene set analysis revealed highly significant overlap among our top-ranked groups and previously published results.

Other regions showed a trend towards convergence towards the middle values.

Overall, a decreasing trend of retinal thickness can be observed in the graph of all animals clustered into months in Fig 5G .

However, in the EAPC for ASDR, regions with low SDI also showed an increasing trend, albeit at the slowest rate.

The frequency of the TAS2R38 PAV taster haplotype showed a trend toward being lower in smokers (38.4%) than in non-smokers (43.1%), although this was not statistically significant (P = 0.31).

However, for individuals over 60, mortality rates continue to fluctuate upwards, with an overall trend of continuous increase ( S5 and S6 Tables ).

Among them, in the test set, the 3D U-Net network model and the 3D U-Net+ASPP network model showed a decreasing trend with increasing training times.

[ 63 ] showed that serotonin can exert a dual effect on bone formation: at low concentrations 5-HT can impair, whereas at higher concentrations it showed a trend to promote bone formation.

Pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines exhibited a sexually dimorphic profile, wherein there was a highly significant increase in expression of IL-6 mRNA in male mice and a trend of increase noted in female mice.

TNFα mRNA levels were unchanged in male adipose tissue but female adipose tissue showed a trend towards increased expression ( Fig 3A ).

It is also important to note that the current study was not powered to investigate this outcome thoroughly, and as such, these findings should be interpreted only as an observed trend.

As seen in Fig 6B , an increasing trend of live cells was exhibited for the hollow BCP, BCP-PEL Hy, BCP-PEL Hy-BMP 2 samples, confirming a favorable interaction between the cells and the bipotential bioactive surface, resulting in faster cellular functionality.

From the data, a decreasing trend in porosity (%) and average pore size was evident with respect to the functionalization of the polymer scaffold.

After OM treatment for just one week, the osteogenic biomarker genes remained significantly measureable, despite an overall trend for lower levels of upregulation ( Fig 1D ), data in S1 Table .

Changes in cellular P i content may be significant in controlling the flux through the protocatechuate pathway by activation of the aldolase.