“a slight trend”

A slight trend toward an increase in uptake was seen in triple-negative breast cancers compared to other hormone receptor types (not significant), as reported in a smaller study by Tade et al.

Furthermore, Salfi and collaborators [ 15 ] showed that women reported higher scores than men on sleep and mental health scales at the beginning of the lockdown, but they exhibited a slight trend toward improvement of mental health in the following weeks, unlike male participants who reported a substantial increment of perceived stress.

Notably, systemic administration showed a slight trend toward earlier and superior functional recovery relative to local delivery, suggesting that the therapeutic effects of ASCs may extend beyond localized application through homing and systemic paracrine mechanisms.

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 ].

A slight trend in the number of microplastic particles correlating with age was observed, with older patients (aged 60 and above) tending to have a higher presence of microplastics in their BAL samples.

Pecavaptan fully counteracted the decrease in CO, whereas tolvaptan exhibited only a slight trend of improvement in the 100 and 300 μg/kg doses.

Concerning physicochemical data, pH ranged from 3.59 (CA-H) to 4.04 (FG-C) at the 41st day of packaging, with a slight trend to increase as the packaging time progressed.

Regarding the endothelial senescence marker CD105, no statistically significant differences were observed in either HUVEC ep or HUVEC lp following SP Mreg treatment, although there was a slight trend towards increased CD105 positivity in both cell types.

As can be seen in Figure 3 , only a slight trend of lower milk production was observed in the SPS system. 3.3.

Examination of the lectin blots indicated a slight trend towards increased sialylation upon 1,3,4- O -Bu 3 ManNAc treatment but rigorous quantification was not possible due to artifacts in the blots.

In another single-center study of 137 patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab, a slight trend toward shorter OS in the subgroup of patients with PIK3CA mutations was observed, yet PTEN loss was associated with a significantly shorter survival time.

However, we note that a slight trend toward reduced replication by Vpr-deficient strains was evident from these studies, which may correlate with the observed trend toward slightly reduced infectivity and depletion by Vpr-deficient X4 virus.

The reported immunogenicity data suggest a slight trend toward higher ADA incidence in humanized compared to fully human anti-PD-1 antibodies.

The prevalence of HFRS has a slight trend of diminishing in recent years.

Further analysis shows insignificance also when gender variation is considered, although a slight trend of significance leans more towards male children (data not shown).

In the LB group, FEV1 at 3 and 6 months after diagnosis were also significantly lower compared to baseline, but this difference was no longer detected after 12 and 24 months, when there was only a slight trend for a lower FEV1 compared to baseline.

When focusing on highly selected subgroups, such as patients with disease confined to the abdomen, those younger than 70 years, or those who achieved complete cytoreduction, no statistically significant survival advantage emerged for PDS, although a slight trend toward improved outcomes was observed.

The results found that the model without label smoothing performed better in terms of the training and validation accuracy; however, the model with label smoothing obtained a loss function value 17% lower, indicating a slight trend to generalize better.

Through quantification of these foci, we establish that Aiolos and Ikaros each are in complex with HDAC1 and HDAC2 with a slight trend towards greater interaction between Aiolos and HDAC1/2 compared with Ikaros ( Fig. 4B ; Supplementary Fig.

There is a slight trend of decreasing and then increasing coefficient of variation for the Southwest Economic Zone, indicating that there is no σ-convergence in the coupling coordination degree in the Southwest Economic Zone.

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.

There is a noted shift in gender ratios from more females in initial records to a slight trend favoring males in the final records, a choice influenced by both breeders and owners.

Using wild-type C57BL/6J mice, moricizine treatment was found to promote sleep, alter circadian gene expression in the heart, and show a slight trend of increasing free-running periods.

In particular, a slight trend toward testosterone decrease was observed with respect to controls, whereas androstenedione levels remained unchanged.

As shown in Figure 3 G, following an oral administration of viridicatol, the level of interleukin (IL)-10 was increased in the serum as a slight trend toward a dose-dependent manner. 2.6.