“a slight trend”

There was a slight trend for fewer genome copies to be recovered from the aerosolized IAV + bacteria samples, though this difference was within a factor of 2 across matched experiments.

We observed only a slight trend towards 3’-UTR lengthening during human adipogenesis, consistent with the modest tendency towards longer 3’-UTRs that was previously reported 18 , but unlike the more notable trend seen during mouse 3T3-L1 adipogenesis 16 .

Changes in growth rates Mussels collected and reintroduced in 2015 showed a slight trend for decreasing shell growth rates over time, consistent among species but not statistically significant in any of them.

Logistic regression models confirm that the main risk factor for bubonic plague death was the geographical location of the cases and being older than 50 years, whereas sex only showcased a slight trend.

We found that subjects with more recent infections had a slight trend towards lower cytokine responses to LPS ex vivo.

3 d that represents average annual precipitation, we can observe a slight trend in negative CEE, i.e. years with less that the lower bound of rainfall per year.

Left ventricle end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD) and volume (LVEDV) increased significantly in all groups with a slight trend toward a greater increase in high-volume HIIT (Table 3 ).

However, no clear differences are evident regarding short-term postoperative complications (e.g., anastomotic dehiscence and surgical site infections), time to first meal, hospital stay, reoperation rate, or hospital readmission, although there was a slight trend towards improved surgical morbidity [ 26 – 28 ].

During the follow-up period, 31 patients (88.6%) died, with a slight trend toward lower mortality among women ( Table 1 ).

A slight upregulation of TLR4 was detected at stage 3 (2.28 ± 1.41 2logFC) and a slight trend toward an increase was observed at stage 4 (0.96 ± 0.64 2logFC), as compared to stage 2.

Overall, wild-type and LRRK2 G2019S microglia had similar cell body size and Iba-1 intensity, with a slight trend to lower cell body size and higher Iba-1 intensity in the 450 mg/kg MLi-2-treated animals (Additional file 1 : Fig.

A slight trend below 200 cm −1 can be deconvoluted into two peaks at about 107 and 145 cm −1 which are characteristics of Cu 2 O.

For the premolar segments of the Bio-Active ® archwires, a slight trend of increasing Af temperature with increased duration of use was observed.

There is a slight trend towards decreasing energy use per item across the time-period.

The jet probability decreases drastically for cone angles between 40–60°, with a slight trend of decreasing jet percentage for lower Alfvén Mach numbers.

However, despite being previously published to improve blood glucose in db/db mice [ 10 ], 0.15 % NEN in the current study did not affect blood glucose control or any of the parameters measured apart from a slight trend for mildly decreased gonadal fat pad mass and liver triglyceride content.

We observed decreased CD4/CD8 T cell ratios in the peripheral blood of Sh2b3 E372K/+ , Sh2b3 E372K/E372K ( Figure S 4A, B ) and spleens of Sh2b3 R530Q/R530Q mice ( Figure S 4C ), but not in the peripheral blood of Sh2b3 R530Q mice ( Figure S 4B ) and only a slight trend in the spleens of Sh2b3 E372K/E372K mice ( Figure S 4C ).

In line with the short-term real-life study, as well as the approval and follow-up trials [ 6 , 15 , 16 ], the ER-formulation in our study was comparable to the IR-formulation in maintaining the WBC cystine levels in patients with cystinosis, with a slight trend towards a lower percent of cystine levels < 1 nmol during the ER-treatment.

In Manchester, UK, climate injustice could be determined as more diverse communities, people living in rent, and poor quality housing make up for a greater heat risk, while for elderly and children only a slight trend is found [ 44 ].

Statistical analysis of inaccuracy and bias in each method has a substantial contribution to the debate concerning the importance and limits of different age estimation methods; in our study, the dental and skeletal methods showed an excellent correlation with real age, especially under 2 years: in this age range, indeed inaccuracy from all the methods is similar, with a slight trend to underestimation.

In contrast, female mice showed only a slight trend towards increasing mortality in the summer vs the other seasons ( Figure 4D ) and this difference was not statistically significant (HR female =1.31, p=0.614).

While the brain of the HTN group still maintains a small world structure, there is a slight trend towards a regular network.

There was a slight trend (not significant) of higher BMI in women than men.

6 B) with a slight trend for elevation with Asn909Lys and also Ile703Val at baseline and in the presence of reducing substrate confirming a general trend for increase with all of the mutations despite clear differences in the O 2 ·- generating activities of these mutations ( Fig. 6 C and D).

Despite the small number of participants, in which the majority consisted of males, a particularly interesting finding of our study was that PLWH on cART-containing INSTI regimens exhibited a slight trend toward lower concentrations of LBP in peripheral plasma.