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Notably, cluster 1 (C1) showed a decreasing trend from day 3 and had a low expression level, functionally associated with erythrocyte development.

Conversely, for the top 11 to 100, and for the 101 to 1000 TRB counts relative to total counts, the GVHD group showed an increasing trend, although not significant ( Supplementary Figure 3b, c ).

An increasing trend was observed in the number of junctions and nodes and the total length of the network, although it did not reach statistical significance.

However, a clear trend of sexual dimorphism was observed, with female rats exhibiting generally higher baseline KNG1 expression compared to males, consistent with the proteomic dataset.

Among these, only C7_Tem_GZMB_IFN showed a decreasing trend in septic groups.

Our results indicated that adding TAE significantly prolonged the mPFS (11.0 vs 6.0 months, p=0.044) and showed a trend toward improved OS and LC.

Four of them were nominally significant for TCR depth response at 8 weeks in the latter cohort (amino acids I at position 97, A at 152, L at 276, and T at 321, all variants belonging to the same LD block).

AE patients with poor outcomes (n=5) showed a trend toward higher median CSF titres in the acute phase and at four months post-onset compared to patients with good outcomes (n=14); however, differences were not statistically significant.

Construction of a disulfidptosis-related prognostic model From the initial 13,826 highly significant DEGs, an intersection with 103 DRGs yielded 86 pancreatic cancer-associated DRGs ( Figure 2A ).

After treatment with IS, compared to the model group, the expression level of CYP26A1 in the IS-treated group was significantly restored ( P < 0.05), and CYP39A1 expression also showed an increasing trend.

In contrast, the expression levels of OLFM1 and PTGS2 were significantly suppressed ( P < 0.05), while BCL-2 expression exhibited a decreasing trend ( Figures 7A–E ).

The IPTW-adjusted analysis confirms a strong trend favoring the CCRT+ICIs strategy at the group level.

In addition, Z-score cut-off analysis confirmed significantly higher Ratio_HERV-W levels in AMS with Z-sNfL > 1.5 (median 0.93 [0.83-1.19]) than Z-sNfL < 1.5 (median 0.76 [0.68-0.77]; Δ HL = 0.19, CI: 0.01/0.54, p = 0.024), and a trend toward significance for Z-sGFAP ( Figure 3B ).

In contrast, the causal effect of CCND1 on liver fibrosis did not reach statistical significance, although a positive trend was observed.

By week 4, electroacupuncture and OFA demonstrated optimal and consistent effects in preserving joint structure and maintaining cartilage integrity, exhibiting extremely significant differences compared to the OA model group.

While not reaching statistical significance, the CD8_Pre_Exhausted subset also showed a clear trend of higher abundance in MUT tumors ( Figure 4D ).

DN2 B cells showed a trend toward decrease, but the change did not reach statistical significance.

Notably, the 4GS showed a numerical trend toward higher baseline values in responders, but the difference did not reach statistical significance.

Meanwhile, anal squamous cell carcinoma, another malignancy with distinct epidemiological characteristics, is closely linked to high-risk human papillomavirus infection, and its incidence has shown an increasing trend in recent years ( 4 , 5 ).This connection is relevant because, although rare, metastases of ESCC to the anal region have been reported, presenting unique clinical manifestations and therapeutic challenges ( 6 ).

Although our analysis did not yield statistically significant differences in the distribution of causes of death across NLR groups, a numerical trend was observed, whereby infection-related mortality was higher in the high NLR group, particularly among patients with early mortality.

First, the sample size is modest, and larger cohorts could refine statistical power, particularly for DCs where trends approached but did not reach significance.

Additionally, T cell polarization assays revealed distinct functional outcomes: monocytes from females promoted a higher frequency of Th2 cells, whereas monocytes from males showed a trend toward increased Th17 cell differentiation ( Figure 4G ).

Despite this elevated oxidative metabolism, quantification of mitochondrial ROS using MitoSOX red fluorescence showed a trend toward lower basal mROS levels at 24 hours following MPLA exposure, which rebounded by 3 days-post treatment ( Figure 4D ).

Moreover, the expression of these receptors (NKp30, p = 0.05, NKp44, p = 0.042, NKp46, p = 0.0211) was also increased in chemotherapy treated surgical cohort compared with chemotherapy naïve cohort ( Figure 4A ) KIR2DL2/L3/S3+CD3-CD56 + Dim NK cells were also comparable to the healthy control levels in chemotherapy treated cohort and showed a trend towards higher expression compared with the chemotherapy naïve surgical cohort ( Figure 4B ), which indicates comprehensible chemotherapy-mediated immune modulation of CD3-CD56 + Dim NK cell in peripheral blood.

The results showed a clear trend of separation between the disease groups (including both treated and untreated patients) and the control group; however, notably, the metabolic profiles of patient samples from the treated and untreated groups largely overlapped ( Supplementary Figures 1A, B ).