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The sperm count in Magea -null epididymis was slightly lower than that of wild-type controls and showed a decreasing trend, although the data did not reach statistical significance ( Supplementary Fig.

Differences with P < 0.01, <0.05, and <0.10 were considered extremely significant, significant, and a trend, respectively.

RSE normalization shows a clear trend towards near-perfect classification upon an increase in the fraction of induced spots ( Fig. 5b ).

Camk2b T287A/T287A mice showed a trend towards reduced locomotion compared to their wildtype littermates, however this difference was not significant (effect of genotype: F 1,21 = 3.72, p = 0.07; effect of time: F 1,21 = 6.47, p < 0.001; interaction: F 1,21 = 0.71, p = 0.59, repeated measures ANOVA; Fig. 1e ).

We showed here that loss of autophosphorylation of CAMK2B at the T287 site does not significantly affect rotarod behaviour, although a small trend could be seen.

Areas having significant or highly significant negative correlations between the annual mean NDVI and the potential NPP accounted for 0.3% of the global grassland area, whereas 15.5% and 25.7% of the area showed significant positive and highly significant positive correlations, respectively.

For the 10–20 yr and 20–40 yr periods, however, the SOC change rate showed an increasing trend with initial SOC levels ( Fig.

The NHE patients showed a trend of impaired neurocognitive function, compared with HCs, whereas MHE patients produced significantly worse performances in all PHES subtests, resulting in lower PHES score, as compared to the other two groups.

Within the differentially expressed genes (DEGs), we detected 157 at peak lactation and 497 in the non-lactating period with a highly significant correlation with milk protein concentration.

4B ), while there was a strong trend for these to be reduced with the switch to a chow diet.

We found a negative association between the depletion of susceptibles and R t of HFMD (coefficients ranging from −0.14 to −0.03 among different years) and a marginally insignificant positive association between absolute humidity and the reproduction number (0.11, 95% confidence interval: −0.01 to 0.22) ( Table 3 ).

Although PTC and FTC were staged in the same way in current systems, the results of univariate analysis demonstrated highly significant differences of death risks between the different groups (PTC vs.

To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Socio-economic factors have led to an increasing trend for couples to delay parenthood.

5 that Chl shows a decreasing trend associated with deepening trend of thermocline during the cold PDO phase as shown in Fig. 5b .

P1 experiment – focal male 1 st to mate Dietary effects on pre-copulatory traits There was a marginally non-significant quadratic effect of focal male protein intake on our measure of male attractiveness to virgin females (the latency of virgin females to mate with the focal male), in which the nutritional landscape peaked at an intermediate protein intake of ~500 μg and a low-to-intermediate carbohydrate consumption (~150 μg to ~1500 μg; Dispersion: 0.218; Protein*Protein: F 1,206 = 3.454, p-value = 0.064; Table S2 ) with P:C ratios lying between 3:1 and 1:3 ( Fig. 3a ).

When we considered all different miRNAs in aggregate for each patient group, we found that there was a highly significant difference between NDAN subjects and both MCI and AD patients, confirming a significant pattern of decreased levels for all measured miRNAs in NDAN contrasted by a pattern of increased levels in MCI or AD patients.

Although indistinguishable by their anthropometric indices, the smaller group ( ca 25% of the male cohort) showed a clear trend consistent with unfavourable lipid metabolism, although their clinical indices remained within the acceptable range.

A positive trend between lnleptin/BMI and serum Alb levels was also observed in the CKD patients, indicating that patients with higher baseline leptin had better nutritional status.

The population size of southern right whales is considered to be recovering following the cessation of commercial whaling (whaling ceased in 1973 in Brazil) 32 33 and the count data on the number of calves was expected to show a positive trend over time.

STH infection was a significant negative predictor of IgG1 galactosylation, and schistosomiasis and CRP level near-significant predictors.

Quantile-quantile (QQ) plots for various classes of variants showed a trend towards association enrichment for conserved nonsynonymous variants and deleterious variants mapping to the A band ( Figs 2 and 3 ).

Highly significant differences were seen when comparing plasma from patients with non-infective SIRS and patients with sepsis relative to no-SIRS controls, with the median fd for miRNAs being 2.64 (IQR: 2.10–3.29) and 1.52 (IQR: 1.15–1.92) respectively (p < 0.0001 and n = 116 for each comparison).

All groups showed a trend of increasing axial length and more myopic SER during 2-year follow-up.

This study suggested that the novel target Dectin-1 may be significant in the development of effective antidepressants with novel mechanism(s) for the treatment of major depression.

The number of MetS components also showed an increasing trend as the serum ANGPTL8/betatrophin levels reduced, suggesting that circulating ANGPTL8/betatrophin may be of importance in the course of MetS and its components.