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In contrast, most chemokine levels in the placentas showed an increasing trend in the MIUH group.

A clear trend of micropore size evolution with the irradiation time cannot be distinguished, for this reason CO 2 adsorption was performed taking into consideration that CO 2 is more suitable molecule for the determination of micropores smaller than 1 nm.

Further adjustment for BMI (model 2), the inverse association between height and hypertension risk was similarly found with a significant trend (the highest vs shortest quartile: OR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.71, 0.88 for men, OR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.78, 0.94 for women; P for trend <0.001).

Next, we selected the top 10 pathways with highly significant levels, as shown in Fig. 4 .

Thus, it is essentially significant to study the influence of crosslinking degree on the permeation selectivities of CO 2 .

Indeed, a clear trend exists, but to the best of our knowledge 56 , this trend on how the combination of HCP and FCC or BCC elements can affect the mixing enthalpy has not been revealed before.

The majority of texture descriptors exhibit either an increasing or a decreasing trend that varies with decreasing PEGDM hydrogel stiffness ( Fig. 4D ).

The association remained highly significant even after adjusting for conventional risk factors and baseline RHR.

14 , who noted that an obvious trend of biomass did not occur in conjunction with temperate secondary broadleaved forest conversion into bamboo forest.

compared FLT, FDG and Fmiso PET used before and during RT of NSCLC, and found that at 46 Gy, FLT SUVmax values were significantly lower (p < 0.0006) in both tumors and nodes than baseline, suggesting a fast decrease in the proliferation of both tumors and nodes exists during radiotherapy with differences in metabolism (borderline significant decrease) and hypoxia (stable) 37 .

Therefore, we performed a comprehensive correlation analysis using the following indices of treatment sensitivity and sought to obtain an overall trend: (i) the surviving fraction at all examined dose points, except 5 μM cisplatin (i.e., 2, 4, 6, and 8 Gy for X-rays, 1, 2, 3, and 4 Gy for carbon ions, and 0.2 and 1 μM for cisplatin).

Although nominally significant associations were observed in the age-adjusted model in men, these nominal associations disappeared after adjusting for the other potential confounding variables.

The difference between the previous and present studies is that our study identified an association of perceived stress with rectal cancer incidence in both men and women, but the former study identified a marginally significant association with colon cancer mortality only in women.

Thus, hatching percentage was drastically affected by even small changes in the photoperiod and temperature showing highly significant linear and quadratic effects ( Table 1 ).

12 , apelin-13 stimulation elicited a further increase in the HUVEC cell index (CI); however, co-stimulation with interference peptides corresponding to TMD1, which was demonstrated to disrupt APJ homodimers, led to a decreasing trend in the CI compared to that before treatment, suggesting disruption of APJ homodimers induced distinct cell responses after agonist stimulation.

Transcription factors previously shown to directly regulate olfactory receptor expression in genetic studies, on the other hand, generally showed a trend towards expression in late developmental stages, with only a few exceptions.

Nevertheless, fertilizer application had a marginally significant impact on bacterial endophyte richness in the three grass species investigated in 2010.

6a shows a clear trend separating angiosperms from the other plant groups, not only due to the absence of JuA and AA (and their derivatives), but also due to the high levels of PEA, LEA and OEA contained in this plant group (i.e., the second PC (R2X[2]).

Shorter axial length was associated with increased risk of PCV and showed a trend towards similar association with typical AMD.

The 16 patients who had HNSCC stage I, stage II or stage III disease had better overall survival than 44 HNSCC stage IVA and stage IVB patients, but the statistical difference only reached borderline significance.

A significant trend of higher CIMT with increasing age was observed in a community-based study in Taiwan 18 ; the mean CIMT values were 0.58 mm (35–44 years), 0.66 mm (45–54 years), 0.75 mm (55–64 years), 0.89 mm (65–74 years), and 1.00 mm (≥75 years) in men; and corresponding values were 0.52 mm, 0.61 mm, 0.68 mm, 0.79 mm, and 0.98 mm in women.

GLM analyses of the amounts of glycosylated isoflavones and malonyl glycosylated isoflavones showed that treatment (df = 1, χ 2 = 11.26, P = 0.0008) and malonylation (glycoside or malonyl glycoside) (df = 1, χ 2 = 81.15, P < 0.0001) were both significantly different and that the interaction (treatment × malonylation: df = 1, χ 2 = 3.73, P = 0.0534) was marginally significant.

Using different dilutions of BF-CM, the data showed a clear trend of increasing number of viable S. mutans- biofilm cells (>6-fold increase at highest BF-CM content vs. no supplementation) in a dose-dependent manner ( r 2 = 0.9; Fig. 1B ) suggesting that BF-CM contains bacterial growth-inducing factors.

During 1981–1997, although the annual sediment discharge of the Yangtze River showed a decreasing trend, the period-averaged sediment discharge was relatively high (390 Mt/yr), and the mouth area of the North Branch experienced overall aggradation, with an average accretion rate of 1.6 ± 0.02 cm/yr.

Though the absolute value and fold change in browning measured using the optical techniques cannot be compared directly to that of the biochemical or histological methods, this approach is unique and simple in providing a clear trend for quantification of browning of WAT.