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Previous literature demonstrated that when animals were trained only after ischemia, there was a nonsignificant trend toward smaller lesions [ 32 ], and our results confirmed this notion.

[ 14 ] revealed for the first time in a large prospective study an increased risk for sALS with formaldehyde exposure, describing a strong trend with increasing years of exposure.

In our small population of healthy volunteers, neither the polymorphism of CYP3A4 gene (IVS10 + 12G > A), nor the P2Y12 receptor gene polymorphism ( H2 allele) were associated with the platelet response to clopidogrel, although there was a slight trend for H2H2 homozygous subjects to being less responders to clopidogrel [ 12 , 13 ].

However, although urinary protein excretion after the study period showed a trend of increase in the control group, but a trend of decrease in the cilnidipine group, the difference in these changes was not statistically significant ( Table 4 ).

MMP-3 was increased significantly in the label-free study and increased to near significance in the QconCAT study.

Thus, redox-dependent pump inhibition may be significant also in the regulation of vascular tone. 4.1.5.

In both studies, a highly significant association with CRC was found for two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Smad7 ( i.e ., rs4939827, rs12953717).

normal fT3-COPD, with a nearly significant difference.

The recombinant plasmid pGL3-898 showed the strongest luciferase activity, and the activity showed a decreasing trend when the deleted region was increased.

The simulations suggest that the changes in intracellular Ca 2+ -transient may be significant if, simultaneously, f CaL,t was high (≥0.6) and f pCa,t low (≤0.2).

Furthermore, the Dnmt3b statistical p value (marginally significant) and fold changes make it necessary to be cautious with the interpretation of these data.

All analyte shows a decreasing trend in water content when the surfactant concentration is increased.

However, we recorded an increasing trend in the NK cell activation independent from the applied therapy ( Figure S6 ).

Human Study: Effects of Chemo-Radio-Immunotherapy on Immunological Parameters During the course of chemo-radio-immunotherapy, we observed a decreasing trend in the absolute amount of leukocytes ( Figure S5a ) and an increase in the monocyte subpopulation ( Figure S5b ) independent from the applied therapy.

Although neither of the polymorphisms proved to be a risk factor for the disease, the APEX1 Asp148Glu polymorphism showed a tendency of association (OR: 1.74, 95% CI = 0.96–3.14) and a significant trend ( p for trend = 0.048).

Here, a positive trend was found between MYCN amplification and REST score, though the p value was not significant (data not shown).

Loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 11q23, which occurs in a large subset of high-risk neuroblastomas, tends to be correlated with high REST activity, with marginal significance.

Foulkes and colleagues [ 20 ] in their investigations also acknowledged race/ethnicity as a highly significant predictor of plasma lipids in HIV patients.

A decreasing trend of expression was observed as the tumor progressed from stage I–II (0.89 ± 0.09-fold in blood; 0.34 ± 0.06-fold in tissue) to stage III–IV (0.64 ± 0.09-fold in blood; 0.19 ± 0.04-fold in tissue) ( Figure 7 A,B).

An increasing trend of expression was observed as the tumor progressed from stage I–II (1.84 ± 0.23-fold in blood; 1.59 ± 0.56-fold in tissue) to stage III–IV (1.99 ± 0.33-fold in blood; 2.53 ± 0.38-fold in tissue) ( Figure 1 A,B).

The results showed that pregnant women with Arg16 had a strong trend toward greater pregnancy prolongation, compared to the other genotype groups.

The International Schizophrenia Consortium also found that a collection of thousands of nominally significant SNPs collectively capture over one-third of the heritability for schizophrenia, a disease that has proven particularly refractory to the discovery of large effect alleles [ 9 ].

Similarly to many of the other Brassicaceae, Eruca sativa consumption might be associated with a highly significant reduction in cancer [ 5 ].

As illustrated in Figure 3 B, there is an interesting trend in the expression of these proteins that are responsible for protein folding and assembly, respectively.

annua suspension cultures, cells treated for three days with 50 mM DIMEB showed slight increases of violaxanthin, zeaxanthin and β-carotene and a highly significant increase of lutein (more than 10-fold) compared to untreated cells, thus showing the ability of DIMEB to enhance carotenoid production ( Figure 1 A).