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In spleen a more highly significant increase of IL-4/13B expression was seen at 24 h.

One-way ANOVA and Student-Newman-Keuls tests were used to determine significant differences in multiple comparisons, and p values less than 0.05 and 0.01 were considered significant and highly significant, respectively.

The tan δ μ value of the CNT film-Fe 3 O 4 -0.10 M is negative and shows a decreasing trend at frequencies higher than 8.5 GHz (Fig. 4f ).

This weathering may result in a slightly increasing trend in 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios from the Late Miocene to Pliocene.

The strength of this response is mostly attributable to a clear and highly significant positive effect of August temperatures on LW D (Fig. 2 ), visible across Quebec-Labrador (Fig. 3 ).

For the easy task TFOE, Figure 4c shows that a different fractal dimension (1.58 instead of 1.42, statistically highly significant) already results when artificial noise of the same SD as found in the measured time signal (SD = 0.05 mm) is added.

At the end of the experiment Chl a concentrations differed between normally-pigmented and bleached corals, with substantially less Chl a present in bleached fragments, with this consistent across all three species, while the smallest difference was apparent in T . reniformis (Fig. 3 ).

Overall, the spatial pattern of total PAHs concentration showed an increasing trend from Northern to Western parts of China and decreased along the coastal areas in Southeastern China.

MMF treatment showed a trend toward lower plasma IgM levels and did not affect anti-dsDNA IgM as seen upon early treatment (Supplementary Figure 8E and F ).

Peak frequency, peak amplitude and fundamental frequency of elements all showed a clear trend of gradual increase during song progression (Table 1 , Fig. 2 ).

One question may be raised, the molecular weight of SPF HMW is higher than that of SPF LMW only by a factor of about 1.15, there is hardly significant difference in molecular weight so that tunable χ S should be tenuous.

Soil invertase and acid phosphatase activities showed a decreasing trend in CR model compared with the MR model in all of the layers examined, but the differences were not statistically significant ( p > 0.05).

The pH values and C:N ratio showed an increasing trend in the CR model compared with the MR model in all of the layers examined, but the differences were not statistically significant ( p > 0.05).

It is also noted that in contrast to MPs with open pores, MP population showed an increasing trend with decreasing pore-to-MP size ratio.

The frequencies of the oscillations show a clear trend of a decline with respect to x up to 0.29 (Fig. 6(a) ).

Differences were considered significant when the P value was less than 0.05 (*) and highly significant when the P value was less than 0.01 (**).

Triglycerides levels showed a significant trend.

During the period 2000–2011, BC incidence in China kept an increasing trend with an annual percentage change (APC) of 3.9 3 .

Specifically, the map STP ( s , t ) exhibited a definite trend from the southwest low incidence region to the northeast high incidence region, which is also the trend of the actual incidence distribution.

Finally, as the significantly differentially expressed microRNAs between the control and TLE samples all had borderline significant p -value, and none of them had a log 2 -fold change above 2, we chose miR-223-3p as it has been shown to be expressed in astrocytes and microglia 22 .

The levels of miR-451a obtained from plasma showed a trend toward negative correlation with the levels in the same individual in CSF, although this did not reach statistical significance (ρ = −0.75, p = 0.066) (Fig.

Results of lymphocyte proliferation were also reflected in the IFN-γ secretion which increased consistently from Day 0 and almost doubled in 3 months and remained high till 12 month in the MIP group while on the contrary, the amount of secreted IFN-γ showed a decreasing trend in the placebo group from Day 0 onward till 6 month (Supplementary Figure 3 ).

tb antigen showed an increasing trend in the MIP group from Day 0 to 6 month in follow-up samples on M . tb stimulation while no change was seen in the placebo group, however, the difference was not statistically significant (Supplementary Figure 2 ).

P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant; P ≤ 0.001 was considered highly significant.

In the eastern Pacific 69% of the variation was explained by the separation of populations South and North of Panamá, but, once again, the F CT value was not significant. With the exception of immediately adjacent populations, pair-wise F ST values between populations in the western Atlantic were large and highly significant (Table 2 ), which, under Wright’s 41 island model would indicate a lack of gene flow over larger distances, assuming equilibrium between migration and genetic drift.