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Lactate exhibited an overall trend to increase in the presence of RANKL and pyruvate, which did not reach statistical significance ( Fig. 7B ).

Furthermore, the geraniol-initiated polyesters, which contained a 12-carbon-long unsaturated, linear chain headgroup with side branches, exhibited an overall trend that as the PLA chain length of the polymer decreases, there was a decrease in the CAC value ( Table 5 , entries 5 to 8).

An overall trend for these patients showed an initial increase in aggregate kidney volumes with a peak volume of 410 cm 3 ( Fig 2 ).

There was an overall trend for increased ownership of individual active play equipment items across increasing household income bands, and children from the highest income households possessed significantly more equipment than children from the lowest income households ( p = 0.04).

Despite no cocaine associated deaths being recorded in 2003 and 2004, during the review period there was an overall trend of increasing annual number of deaths associated with cocaine as reported by the State Pathologist's Department for Northern Ireland.

For H3K27me3 an overall trend to increased signals at late time points was observed, particularly in the fast class, however, only few of these changes were statistically significant (compare to Fig. 3 g,h).

In fact, HF therapies have a strong impact on BP values, with an overall trend of hypotension, and this can interfere with LV performance.

Hence, while an overall trend may exist, further validation with larger sample sizes may be needed to ascertain specific intergroup differences.

Compressive Strength Figure 4 a demonstrates that, under the standard-curing conditions, throughout the observed erosion cycles, the compressive strength of the mortar specimens exhibited an overall trend of increasing at first and then decreasing with the rise in the number of erosion cycles.

With the increasing methane inlet load, there was an overall trend of decreasing RE for biofilter 1 from 28.8±1.3% to 7.90±0.33%.

When SB was replaced by other movement behaviors, there was an overall trend of decreasing depression scores in older adults, with the strongest health effect when it was replaced by MVPA, suggesting that reducing the amount of time SB is used may be an important way to effectively intervene in older adults’ depression.

This was associated with an overall trend towards a poorer arthritis risk, indicating that gender and age have a significant impact on arthritis.

There was an overall trend towards less blood loss and lower odds of transfusion whenever the dose increased [ 10 ].

An overall trend of improvement across physiological and self-report measures, provided some empirical evidence against the ‘terminal AN’ diagnosis [ 25 ].

There was also an overall trend towards increasing weights of this μ-XANES spectrum with increasing pH. μ-XRF/μ-XANES Micro-X-ray fluorescence and μ-XANES analyses were used to chemically map samples from 3 depth intervals and then investigate the bonding environment of Ca at specific locations in the sample.

There is variable data on mycophenolate use compared to azathioprine, but with an overall trend towards favoring MMF over AZA for prevention of ACR [ 41 ], CLAD, and a small amount of data favoring improved lung function. 3.2.3.

The first group, which included the maternally imprinted MEST (also known as the paternally expressed gene 1 ( PEG1 )) and PLAGL1 , represents genes that had an overall trend of decreasing abundance during pre-implantation development in the bovine.

Figure 9 d shows the change curve of electrode liquid temperature in the process of electrolysis for 5 h, and the curve shows an overall trend of increase.

However, an overall trend of increasing total gonadotrophin dose with increasing BMI was observed in obese females ( online supplemental figure 2B ).

However, in patient glioblastoma cultures, no significant changes in tumour cell numbers were observed between the same groups, although an overall trend for higher efficacy of AZ over TMZ was speculated (Fig. 3 A).

The diversity increased in pre-monsoon2 compared to winter2 (GLM, FDR < 0.0001, Additional file 6, Table S5 ), suggesting an overall trend of increasing prokaryotic diversity from the monsoon through to the pre-monsoon seasons in the tilapia pond water.

As regulatory T cells, FoxP3 + TILs demonstrated an overall trend toward tumor promotion and poor prognosis across positive subgroups, with low heterogeneity in most subgroups.

Our analysis is consistent with these reports and more recent studies [47] , [65] , which found an overall trend that pregnant women, mainly in their third trimester, have a higher incidence of hospitalization than the general population.

31 , both the stress increment values and their mean values are positive, exhibiting an overall trend of initial decline followed by an increase.

As an overall trend, S min decreased as water conductivity diminished (from 15.5 to 12.5 mm as water conductivity decreased from 0.05 to 0.0005 S/m).