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Responder patients tend to show a significant trend of change in miRNA levels than non-responders over the treatment period.

As the degradation intensified, the total root length and surface area showed an increasing trend, while volume tended to be stable, indicating that the root system increased its absorbing ability by decreasing diameter and increasing surface area 46 , which helps to adapt to the extreme environment 47 .

In this case, the difference in parcel opening latencies was not significant (p = 0.06) in the behavioural experiments, but a strong trend for lower latencies hearing the higher value food-associated sound could be observed.

An association between the accommodative and vergence responses in both tasks was weak and of borderline significance.

A notable trend emerged from our findings, revealing that varying NPs concentrations during different priming durations significantly influenced the radical and plumule length of wheat seedlings.

As a developing province, the economy will continue to maintain medium to high speed development for a period of time, which means that carbon emission will continue to show an increasing trend.

It can be concluded that Hefei and Fuyang City have been the areas with high carbon emission level in Anhui Province, Chuzhou City has a clear trend of carbon emission growth in recent years, and Suzhou and Liuan City have a more stable growth of carbon emission.

In the second stage, the average efficiency value also presents an inverted “V” shaped trend, during 2011–2013, the average efficiency value shows an increasing trend, rising from 0.29 in 2011 to 0.43 in 2013, however, in just one year, the average efficiency value decreases from 0.43 in 2013 to 0.31 in 2014.

On the other hand, in anchovy, the δ 15 N and δ 13 C content was mostly controlled by environmental variables such as salinity and temperature, and the species showed an increasing trend in the abundance in the last 40 years in the Northern-central Adriatic Sea 8 .

Since sardine and sprat showed a decreasing trend in their abundances across the last 40 years, which could be influenced also by resource availability, a regular monitoring of their resources (i.e., mesozooplankton) should have been done consistently for a correct management of such resources within the ecosystem approach to fisheries.

A linear-trend analysis with an exclusion criterion of R 2 > 0.5 was carried out for each participant and condition to ensure that there was a significant trend of gradual increase in the estimates of the 100, 300, 500, and 700 ms intervals.

The analysis of the mode of delivery by gestational age, for the pairwise comparison of 2019 and 2020, showed a trend of increasing caesarean delivery in all gestational age groups.

In bleomycin-induced fibrosis, there was an increasing trend in HYP levels compared to the control group, though it was not statistically significant.

Even though the average score of the index was still in the normal range, we can ascribe such a negative trend to the attention paid by parents on their children’s behaviour during challenging cognitive activities, which could have caused a greater awareness of their children’s difficulties in terms of attentional, hyperactive and oppositional behaviour.

In fact, our preliminary study on ABI found a trend towards significance for the improvement in mathematical operations speed only and no other gain.

Reports based on either a particular group or region show an increasing trend in hysterectomy, but there is a dearth of national-level data in this domain.

Body composition and MDS Body fat percentage (β = − 0.82; 95% CI − 1.64, 0.01; P = 0.052) and fat mass index to fat-free mass index ratio (β = − 0.016; 95% CI − 0.032, 0.0002; P = 0.052) showed a trend for a significant inverse relationship with MDS tertiles in the crude model (Table 3 ).

The subsequent ANOVA variance analysis revealed a highly significant statistical difference in the distribution of the t index between the six classes (Table 2 ).

In Korea, an increasing trend in the daily maximum temperature and the number of heatwaves occurring per day has been reported 9 .

CBA analysis of coculture supernatants showed a trend of reduced levels of IL6, IL8, MCP1 and IL1β (Fig. 6 B).

In this carbonate platform, the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr value follows a decreasing trend (hydrothermal alteration trend) due to the Sr exchange of carbonate mineral under the influence of hydrothermal fluid after deposition.

Given the risk of neurological “long-COVID” symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection 21 , 22 , evidence of COVID-induced changes in brain regions that are related to cognition and neurological disorders 23 , and association of COVID-19 with onset of neurodegenerative disease 24 , it is highly significant to establish the underlying biological cellular brain responses that are associated with TLR3 activation and viral inflammation.

Interestingly, mice with reduced expression of C3 (C3 ASO injected mice) exhibited significantly reduced level of Il-6 elevation and a strong trend for reduced expression of Tnfa and Ccl2 in response to Poly(I:C) compared to animals with wild type level of C3 (NT ASO injected mice) (Fig. 3 A–C).

We see a clear trend that the higher the allocator’s income is, the more people demand her to transfer.

colias catches, which showed an increasing trend from 2005 to 2019 in the Adriatic Sea and the same trend was registered from 2010 to 2019 in the entire Mediterranean Sea 7 .