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We found that the lower kallistatin/total protein ratio in BALF had a strong trend toward higher neutrophil counts in BALF and predicting worse clinical outcomes, as indicated by increased PaCO 2 value and mortality.

Results Long-term data showed a clear trend with densities of both P. lividus and A. lixula enormously increasing after protection enforcement ( Fig. 1 ).

A non-linear regression curve depicted a decreasing trend of LD decay with an increase in the physical distance (kb) in the six populations.

However, treatment arm was not a significant prognostic factor for 2- and 3-year D-FFS or LR-FFS, though treatment arm had a marginally significant effect on these outcomes ( Table 2 ).

In particular, samples showed a decreasing trend in the VEGF activity over time, thus confirming an effective VEGF release (see Supplementary Information , Figure S3 ).

An Italian case-control study found a marginally significant excess of homozygosity for the rs890 29 .

Interestingly, a high abundance of Alphaproteobacteria was captured at B0, with a decreasing trend along the water column of station B.

rs11200638 ( HTRA1 ) and rs2230199 ( C3 ) approached significance but did not meet the Bonferroni corrected P value threshold.

In the present study, VEGF, a driving angiogenic factor, showed a trend to reduced transcript levels.

As the effect sizes for the majority of these genes were small (<1 SD) and close to significance cutoff, it may explain the limitations in replicating these findings in our smaller sample set.

Promoter regions of 77 genes (44.5%) with highly significant decrease in placental expression in PE contain potential response elements for all three TFs.

Although there is no statistical difference ( Figure S3B ), an increasing trend of phosphorylated ERK blotting could be observed by 100 μM cordecypin at 6 hr treatment ( Figure S3A ).

This map only provides information for thirteen provincial regions, and we could not find an obvious trend in the geographic distribution of BPH.

The CO concentrations showed a decreasing trend up to about 50°N, indicating a decrease in local contribution by anthropogenic sources, such as fossil fuels, north of 50°N.

caspica assimilating branches did not significantly change with increasing levels of salinity in this study, a decreasing trend in K + content was observed with increasing salt stress.

For T2D after polymyalgia rheumatica the difference was of borderline significance (1.68, 95% CI 1.56–1.81 for men and 1.92, 95% CI 1.81–2.03 for women).

Most of the variables in the subcategory analyses did not significantly vary between the LR and OR groups; however, a favorable trend toward LR was found.

There is an obvious trend that the corrosion potential moves to the positive direction and the corrosion current density decreases with increasing immersion time.

These data showed a strong and highly significant correlation between ADRB activity and ELISA titer.

Expression of mRNA for serum amyloid A1 (SAA1) was significantly reduced and expression of mRNA for α 2-macroglobulin (A2M) showed a trend of a reduction ( Fig. 5d ).

If the AMOC collapse would have developed even slower, the increase in heat uptake would not have been able to compensate the increased radiative forcing and GMT would have been characterised with a positive trend, albeit weaker than in case of no AMOC shutdown.

In case of an AMOC shutdown global cooling sets in when the sum of net radiative forcing and ocean heat transport convergence in the NH display a negative trend.

4a ) indicates an oxygen deficit for the 50 nm and 150 nm PZT layers, with a clear trend of increase in the oxygen content towards the stoichiometric value for the 250 nm layer.

As noted in a number of observational and modeling studies, the last decades witnessed a positive trend in zonal wind speed over the Southern Ocean, combined with a southward shift in the location of the zone of the highest wind speeds (i.e., prevalence of the positive phase of the SAM index 21 22 ).

At present, we can only speculate that the increased variance of the cross-frontal temperature differences has been at least partly responsible for the lack of a negative trend in large and values, that can be seen in the affected zones along profiles A, B, E, and F.