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Although GDNF gene expression and GDNF protein concentrations showed a slight trend towards higher values in MS females, these differences were not statistically significant.

The infants with PS showed a slight trend for decreased straightness ratio in the involved side from 2 to 6 months, with some variability.

Nonetheless, there was a slight trend toward better scores among males, particularly regarding the DASH measure.

Another important finding was the increase in connectivity between the language and salience networks, along with a slight trend for an increase in within-salience network connectivity in LPA.

The NHP precursor Pip did not elicit an increase in WRKY38 mRNA within 3 h but showed a slight trend of increased abundance at the 6 h time point ( Fig. 1C ).

Anyone of them reached a statistically significant relationship with the effect sizes, although the negative value of their slopes ( b j = −0.662 and −0.033, respectively) indicated a slight trend to show lower effect sizes as the mean age and the percentage of males increased.

Considering the secondary outcomes, we found a slight trend towards a higher risk of experiencing an SSI within 30 days after surgery among patients in the antibacterial suture arm than in the control arm.

4 ng/mL), but our cohort’s PJI group also showed a slight trend towards lower suPAR concentrations in blood plasma than the PJI-negative patients.

As a result of these opposing trends, total FFAs were not significantly affected by the sucrose diet, and maternal immunization showed only a slight trend towards lowering them (J) .

As expected for transposon-specific piRNAs, a clear bias towards the anti-sense strand was observed in Siwi-bound Aquila sRNAs, while a slight trend to sense sRNAs was observed for Ago3-binding molecules ( Figure S7 ).

One explanation for this may be that all the participants scored high levels of CS, and therefore there was no dispersion of data that would allow a correlation, although a slight trend towards this was observed.

To date, there is a slight trend to improved survival in the patients who received leucovorin plus fluorouracil, but it is unlikely that this trend will ever reach statistical signficance in this small study.

Furthermore, in comparison to the reference structure, the control group's structure showed only a slight trend toward the skilled group over time (from 0 to 0.06).

A slight trend for expansion of EGFR‐positive EV subpopulations was also observed using dSTORM nanoimaging, raising from 9% (Figure 2D,E ) to 12% of the total population (Figure 4D,E ).

However, in female rats, there was a slight trend of density enhancement in the LFRU group compared to the CON group, while the HFRU group remained suppressed.

Compared to the significant decrease in ST3GAL2 expression at the mRNA level and the apparent decrease in immunofluorescence signal of the ST3GAL2 protein, we found only a slight trend towards down-regulation of ST3GAL2 at the protein level by Western blot in infected samples (not significant; Fig. 4 C).

Although there was a slight trend for increasing longest neurite length and total neurite length when B-27 was implemented as part of the differentiation process, the difference compared to the typical SH-SY5Y differentiation protocol was very small and not statistically significant.

While there is a slight trend in decreasing solving times with additional pre-processing, the time needed to apply the pre-processing itself dominates much of the runtime, especially on lower tree scales.

Nearly half (48.2%) of these patients presented within 2 years of pouch construction, with a slight trend toward reduced incidence as more time had elapsed after surgery.

Furthermore, the change in body weight of the mice indicated that the control group showed a slight trend of body weight gain, which may be attributed to rapid tumor development, leading to severe ascites (Fig. 5 D).

In Germany, a slight trend towards "very common" was observed.

Nevertheless, there was no significant change in ABA level between light and darkness in high RH for any of the light treatments, except a slight trend of higher ABA level during the night under LED.

Although not significant in our analyses, there is a slight trend towards faster rates of loss of wet forest habitat than gains.

Although there is a slight trend indicating that Christian participants may be more likely to attend meetings than their Muslim counterparts, the evidence is not robust enough to support a conclusive interpretation.

There was a slight trend that the compounds bearing less flexible substituents, 5a and 5b or 9a and 9b , often had higher affinity than 5c , 5d , 5f , and 9c , 9d , 9f .