“a slight trend”

Although we did not see any change in necrotic core size, we did see a slight trend increase of fibrotic cap thickness in mice with MF MMP8 deficiency ( Fig 5D , E ).

Although the urban changes dominated the forest fragmentation, a slight trend of forest fragmentation was detected even without urbanization/urban sprawl.

There was a slight trend toward an accelerated rate of net loss of polarity from early to recent ages ( fig. 2 B ), which is particularly evident for substitutions that occurred in the Drosophila melanogaster clade ( fig. 2 A ).

10 g reveals a slight trend for a gradual increase, which is expected since the higher the number of users in a square, the higher the probability of congestion and packet loss to occur.

Despite a slight trend toward lower initial pregnancy rates in the vitrified donor oocyte group, cumulative outcomes remained comparable between the two groups.

Treatment with EGb 761 did not substantially reverse LPS-induced IκBα degradation, thereby failing to prevent phosphorylation and subsequent nuclear translocation of the NF-κBp65 subunit, although there was a slight trend towards reduced IκBα degradation, this effect did not reach statistical significance.

Additionally, the Galbraith’s plot seen in Figure 7 suggests a slight trend in effect sizes, but the confidence band includes zero, indicating that whilst some heterogeneity may exist, there is no strong evidence of significant small-study bias in the meta-analysis. 5.

We found no significant differences in SD 50 scores (reflecting both the seed quantity and the seeding kinetics) between the two groups in any of the examined brain areas, apart from a slight trend towards higher values in the amygdala and substantia nigra of rpDLB patients, further confirming the evidence that LBP load is not the factor responsible for reduced disease duration in rpDLB patients.

There is a slight trend that higher clearance, and therefore shorter elimination half-lives, can lead to shorter dosing intervals, e.g., QW dosing, but in general the data did not reveal a clear correlation, possibly due to the large scatter.

As expected from clinical experience, there was a slight trend toward decreasing scores across all groups from 3-month to the 6-month time point.

Also, there was a slight trend of higher HIV infection rate towards advanced age (41–45 years), though it was not statistically significant ( p = 0.07).

This finding indicates that although there is a slight trend toward a reverse influence, its effect is relatively weak compared to the significant impact of metabolic dysregulation on brain iron deposition and, consequently, on cognitive function (Table S5 ). 3.5.4.

For all other kinase groups, we observed a slight trend toward increased transcription in the egg and L3 stages (Additional file 2 : Figure S1).

Although there was a slight trend towards higher average plaque size in Ldlr BM S1pr1 MKO versus Ldlr BM S1pr1 MWT mice fed the HF diet for 12 weeks (193,000 ± 21,000 μm 2 versus 173,000 ± 15,000 μm 2 , respectively), the data did not reach statistical significance.

Notably, in the STOP-IgAN cohort, 1 out of 55 patients in the steroid monotherapy group and 5 out of 54 patients in supportive care group progressed to ESRD, demonstrating a slight trend for steroids being superior to supportive care, although there was no statistical significance, which might have resulted from the relatively small number of patients.

Despite a slight trend towards lower catheter adherent bacterial counts in Sbp-negative mutants derived from S . epidermidis 1457-M10 and 1585, the observed differences compared to their Sbp producing parent strains did not reach statistical significance.

However, a slight trend toward a decreased risk was seen in the group with a training volume in hours >110% of their age.

The Hif-p4h-2 gt/gt mice also showed a slight trend towards better glucose tolerance compared with the WT (Fig.

Apart from the inhomogeneous sample #1, samples #3 and #5 show a slight trend towards decreasing mechanical properties in the direction of the filament edges, which indicates a particle depletion in this area [ 89 ].

After these 27 knees, the process seemed to stabilize at the 180° target, with a slight trend towards varus knees.

A slight trend in lower circulating EVs in the DOAC arm was observed in both the small and large EVs; however, significance was not reached (Figure 2A : small EVs; p = 0.4577, Figure 2C : large EVs; p = 0.4574).

Moreover, the relaxation times are quite similar between the generations, although a slight trend is evident with somehow slower segmental dynamics with increasing generation; nevertheless, this dependence is much weaker than the one that would be anticipated if it were due to the different T g ’s of the neat polymers.

The higher number of nodules formed on the pre-infected roots was reflected by a slight trend for increased nodule mass, two and five weeks after inoculation of B. japonicum (Fig. 5B ).

Those obtained under standard conditions show a slight trend of increasing DS with DP, which is in agreement with the discrimination of the deuteromethyl-rich COS when TD is not optimized, but the effect is very small.

The total number of AML-ETO+ LSK cells showed a slight trend for elevated numbers when short term cultured on aged endosteal cells compared to young cells, but remained overall relatively similar in response to incubation on young and aged endosteal cells ( Figure 3E ).