“a decreasing trend”

For higher bladder volumes, the rectum dose showed a decreasing trend.

Although not significant (p>0.05), knee loading at 1 N showed a decreasing trend of NGFß in the femur and cartilage as compared to the control, consistent with the previous report [12] .

A decreasing trend was observed in all the postoperative complications: postoperative vaginal discharge decreased from 6/100 (6%) in block A to 9/388 (2.3%) in block D; urinary tract infection, from 5/100 (5%) to 2/388 (0.5%) in block D; and fever, from 1/100 (1%) in block A to 2/388 (0.5%) in block D.

For each of the genes, protein expression was significantly reduced in myopathic hearts when compared to controls, with the exception of PLB, which was not significantly different but did show a decreasing trend.

Fernández also discusses a decreasing trend in Latin American consumption of medicinal products from 8% of global consumption in 1980 to 5% in 1990.

Cumulative risk quotients for fungicides were always lower than unit presenting acceptable risk, while maximum cumulative RQs for herbicides were always lower than 9.3 with a decreasing trend from 2005 to 2007.

In the case of IFNγ, cross-sectional study of pre- and post-ART showed a decreasing trend in serum IFNγ levels with the initiation of ART (Table 2 ) ( 20 ).

There is a decreasing trend in the prevalence of VI and URE in Mahbubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh over a decade.

While the annual Bowen ratio shows a decreasing trend in a boreal Scots pine forest [11] .

In addition, body weight and fat pad weight showed a decreasing trend in the treated group [ 16 ].

A small decrease in the factor score is present in the region 150–180 km and then a decreasing trend is present till the delta.

Historical precipitation records over the monsoon regions around the globe reveal a decreasing trend in the global land monsoon precipitation 27 , 28 over the last half of the century (1948–2003), with primary contributions from a weakening of the summer monsoon systems in the Northern Hemisphere (NH).

Discussion The study results showed that transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) had a decreasing trend during 2004 to 2010 ( Fig 1 ).

Strong evidence of a decreasing trend in prevalence of VF and ADR with increasing age groups (non-parametric test for trend, p = 0.004 and p < 0.001 respectively) was also observed.

Nevertheless, the expression of MAGE-C1/CT7, MAGE-A3 and MAGE-C2/CT10 showed a decreasing trend in six patients with del(17p13) (Table 3 ), which requires further analysis.

Second, after cyclin E1 levels plateaued, they dropped slowly during the final half of S phase ( Figure 5D ); this also occurred concomitant with a decreasing trend of cyclin E1 mRNA.

Additionally, despite the limited sample size, a decreasing trend in VE was observed in our setting; specifically, the adjusted VE against influenza A was 21.7% in the early phase and 8.9% in the late phase.

Transcript levels of SPC from whole lung RNA extracts using quantitative RT-PCR also showed decreased expression of SPC in caffeine treated mice in room air and a decreasing trend under hyperoxic conditions ( Figure 3C ).

All sediment rating curves at four stations in different periods generally displayed a decreasing trend in the later period (1987–2011) ( Fig. 5 ).

As shown in Table 3 , from 2006 to 2011, there was an increasing trend for TC values (fixed coefficients of linear mixed-effects model during 2006–2010 versus 2011 were −0.03, −0.29, −0.01, 0.10, and 0.02) and a decreasing trend for HDL-C values (fixed coefficients of linear mixed-effects model during 2006–2010 versus 2011 were 0.33, 0.14, 0.10, 0.05, and 0.10). 3.3.

Runoff in summer to early autumn exhibits an increasing trend, while in the rest period of a year it shows a decreasing trend, especially in spring season.

In fact, our comparisons of individual and JEM-based measures of lifting supported a decreasing trend of lifting exposures with increasing gestational age.

The detection rates of astrovirus were then analyzed year-wise, which showed a decreasing trend of 1.2% in 2008, 1.7% in 2009, 0.7% in 2010, 0.4% in 2011, and 0.7% in 2012; the exception being the year 2009 where it showed an increase (1.7%).

However subjective awareness for mild or severe obesity showed a decreasing trend from 2007 instead ( Fig. 2 ).

Uterine cervical cancer is the second most common female malignancy worldwide 1 and cervical cancer remains a major health problem in Korea, although the incidence has shown a decreasing trend due to the high quality of the national health project for cervical cancer screening and development of cervical vaccines. 2 Regarding uterine cervical carcinogenesis, human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most important oncogenic causes in cervical carcinomas. 3 HPV is a double-stranded DNA vir