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In addition, UA showed a slight trend to reduce cellular ROS production in cultures treated with poly I:C, although not statistically significant.

When accounting for Bonferroni correction, no significant differences were observed for scores of Reader 1, although a slight trend of higher scores towards the interpolated images was observed.

Overall, there was no statistically significant difference in OS between patients exhibiting lower or higher intensity of EIF4G2 protein staining, although there was a slight trend towards lower survival in the low expressers (Supplementary Fig.

However, a slight trend was observed that Universities with ≥ 200 spots had a higher number of NOTSS in their curricula compared to universities with < 200 spots (3.2 ± 4 vs. 1.9 ± 2).

Even though a slight trend was observed between the CD4 cell count and total HIV-1 DNA, no association was found between these two variables after CD4 T cell stratification.

For the lipid A parent formulations, A-DOPE showed a slight trend of higher particle size for F1 ( Figure 3 B), while the PDI increased from F1 to F3 (n.s., Figure 3 C) and EE% remained comparable across all fractions for both A-DOPE and A-DEPE LNPs ( Figure 3 D).

However, a slight trend indicates that patients aged between 35 and 49 had a slightly higher average submission rate than those in other age groups, while those aged 65 and above had the lowest average submission rate. 3) PACMAN Utilization Since the launch of the PACMAN function, the system has processed 43,444 image submissions.

The conditional weighted residual errors (CWRES) were randomly distributed around zero without obvious trends over population predictions, but with a slight trend over time between 6 and 8 h after the last drug intake.

However, compared with those in exon 9, the frequency of exon 20 PIK3CA mutations seems to show a slight trend toward being more common in ESCC [ 55 ].

Year was relatively less important (RVI = 0.27), although there was a slight trend towards higher harvest success over time (Additional file 1 : Table S2, Fig.

There was a slight trend toward a higher percentage of death in the RB2550, but it was not statistically significant ( P = 0.22, n = 6) (Supporting Information Figure 2C ).

Comparing the different 3D structural parameters, we observed a slight trend towards larger median equivalent diameter and median volume for both Bowman's capsule and glomerulus in the 5-day trauma group (Figures 6(a) and 6(c) ), whereas the sphericity of the Bowman's capsule and the glomerulus was the largest in the 24 h trauma group compared to the other groups ( Figure 6(b) ).

While there was a slight trend towards a higher percentage of alive (YFP+) spores per larvae in rac2 −/− versus rac2 +/+ larvae, this difference was not statistically significant, suggesting that Rac2 is not required for spore killing ( Fig. 3C ).

Our results indicate that the overall mean C0 component of keratometric astigmatism ranges around 0.20 dpt (95% confidence interval: -1.6 to 2.3 dpt) whereas the C45 component ranges around -0.02 dpt (95% confidence interval: -1.1 to 1.0 dpt) with a slight trend to positive values for OD and negative values for OS.

The results showed that the athletes’ performances demonstrated a slight trend of improvement with the decrease in temperature, among which the running performance improved more.

Akt phosphorylation was increased in H358 cells, and a slight trend was seen in AT1 cells, whereas in NRKF cells Akt expression and phosphorylation status were independent from the pH.

Effect of vending machine condition on beverage choice From Table 1 , it can be seen that there was a slight trend towards healthier beverage choices for the vending machine that featured the traffic light system, with green beverages chosen 6·1 % more frequently and red beverages chosen 6·3 % less frequently relative to the control machine.

Adequate fusion rates were observed in our patient cohort, with a slight trend toward a higher fusion rate on the site of the Trinity CBA that was not statistically significant.

Furthermore, there was a slight trend towards more robotic assisted liver resections and more major liver resections after implementation of ERAS.

In a phase III study, infusion with autologous tumor cell–bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine after surgical resection in stage II and III colon cancer patients didn’t show statistically significant differences in clinical outcomes compared with the arm under surgical resection alone, though there was a slight trend in PFS and OS ( 72 ).

However, there was a slight trend that may indicate that in the groups where most of the participants were men, there was an improvement in both general cognitive status and EEG assessments. 3.3.1.

Some studies showed a slight trend of higher mortality in the COT group with actual PaO 2 < 80 mmHg and in medical ICU settings.

The number of patients with CSF pleocytosis was also similar in patients with and without pain (even if there was a slight trend toward more patients with pleocytosis in the cohort without pain (Table 1 )).

While there was a slight trend towards an increase in monthly average values, the COVID-19 pandemic did not significantly alter this trend.

Moving down the families of VH germlines, from IGHV1–2 to IGHV8-51-1, a slight trend is visible where the total number of positive and negative charges decreases (Suppl.