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Of the four meta-analyses conducted with univariable data, only the metaHR of the association between COX2 expression and recurrence in NMIBCs showed marginal significance (metaHR = 1.35, 95%CI = 1.00–1.83; Figure 2 ).

A highly significant association was found between urine and plasma heparanase levels in transplanted patients, suggesting that heparanase is present systemically and can affect cells and tissues other than the kidney.

miRNA as Possible Candidate Targets of 7q Deletion in SMZL As shown by qRT-PCR, there was a clear trend of under-expression of all the miRNA within the MDR in SMZL with 7q deletion as compared with those without the deletion.

A highly significant increase in cell sizes was seen for all three tested cell lines ( Figure 3B, D, F ).

Instead, populations with relatively high reproductive output in the Open/Dry treatment also had high reproductive output in the Understory/Moist treatment, and vice versa (marginally significant positive correlation; Fig. 6 ).

The third latent variable accounted for relatively little variance and was only marginally significant, indicating that this effect should be replicated in future research.

Towards the end of the first period of media coverage of regulatory warnings, GPs’ prescriptions for paroxetine showed a negative trend and continued decreasing until December 2009 ( Figure 3C , appendix table).

This non-linear relationship was supported by statistical analysis, which showed significant linear regression slopes in only three isolates (GH5, GH7, and GH8), with highly significant departures from linearity in seven, including GH8 ( Table S1 ).

However, we did find steady and nearly significant increases in F2-isoprostane levels over 12 months in those receiving efavirenz; however, there were no between-group differences with those receiving PI.

As common SNPs associated with GDM and detected by GWAS may represent rare genetic variants with large effects, sequencing the regions surrounding highly significant and replicated genomic regions to detect rare variants appears to be reasonable.

In all the statistical analyses P values lower than 0.05 were considered significant, and lower than 0.01 were considered highly significant.

The regulatory elements were generally but not consistently evolutionarily conserved and also showed a trend toward decreased population diversity.

Interestingly, in group MCV − TSV + , TSV-specific IFN-γ responses with TSV antigen were significantly stronger than with MCV antigen at 1.5μg/mL concentration, and also almost significantly stronger at 0.5 μg/ml concentration, whereas the differences with IL-10 responses were less apparent ( Table 3 ).

The upper level of significance was chosen as p<0.001 (highly significant).

Characteristics of this subcohort are summarised in Table 1 where it can be seen that brain amyloid burden was almost significantly different at the 0.05 level between diagnostic groups (Kruskal-Wallis (KW) χ 2 test p-value 0.055).

However, we found an increasing trend in survival relative to prey abundance and vulnerability ( Fig. 2 ).

There was an overall trend for increase in anti-RR titer during the therapy ( Figure 5B and C ), but there was considerable heterogeneity in the tempo and steadiness of anti-RR titer among different patients.

Redox varied considerably between sites and there was a highly significant reduction (50 mV) in redox adjacent to the mussel lines.

On contrary, distribution of DOX formulation in healthy organs gave a decreasing trend accompany by time from 2 to 24 h.

Although we detected only borderline significant improved recurrence-free survival upon tamoxifen in high pERK subgroup (Hazard Ratio [HR] = 0.444, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.197 to 1.004, Univariate Cox regression: P = 0.051), the low pERK in CAFs displayed no difference in survival between treatment arms (Hazard Ratio [HR] = 1.204, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.436 to 3.327, Univariate Cox regression: P = 0.720) confirming our finding of an impaired tamoxifen response in patients with low ERK phosphorylation in CAFs.

However, in the case of proteins with unique topologies, as seen in knotted proteins [23] , [24] , [28] , the effect of the excluded volume may be significant as the internal radius of the slipknot is reduced and can impact the threading event.

Highly significant differences in the sizes between the two megahabitats were only detected in the second survey when a greater number of medium-small individuals was captured in the coral megahabitat and a greater number of medium-large individuals in the non-coral megahabitat.

However, the significance of any contribution from the urothelium to bulk water transport in situ remains to be confirmed, as caution is required in translating directly from in vitro to in situ, where other factors such as intravesical pressure, urinary composition and urothelial surface area may be significant.

Assessment of gene expression in HNSCC tumor tissues Vs normal mucosa controls Since only MAGEB2 showed near statistical significance for promoter demethylation in tumors we proceeded to assess if promoter demethylation of MAGEB2 is associated with tumor specific increased MAGEB2 gene expression.

VCP is important in mediating protein degradation, a highly significant process for terminally differentiated cells.