“a slight trend”

Histologic examination of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained liver sections revealed a slight trend towards reduced macrosteatosis, inflammation, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) activity score, but these did not reach statistical significance ( Figure 2 J–K ).

While the subgroup analysis by CCT training adherence was generally consistent with the overall analysis, a slight trend towards a higher improvement in the placebo arm was observed for the subgroup of patients with cumulative CCT compliance ≥ median (2.17 h per week; Fig. 3 ). 3.2.2.

To be specific, (1) in low-density communities, the time required to evacuate all agents increased significantly as the proportion of vulnerable resident agents increased, and the result was similar to the previous study [ 26 ]; (2) in the medium-density communities, the total evacuation time firstly showed a slight trend of decline when the proportion of vulnerable resident agents increased from 5% to 30%, and then gradually increased when the proportion of vulnerable resident agents continued to increase; (3) in the high-density communities, the increase in the percentage of vulnerable resident agents resulted in a slight decrease in total evacuation time, which was significantly different from the other two types of communities.

Although we did not analyze the presence of M1 macrophages, we presume that exposure to CpG-ODNs at 0.1 mM may activate the M1 subset because the quantitative analysis of F4/80 immunohistochemistry revealed a slight trend toward CpG-ODNs compared with that in the HBSS and DW groups at week 2.

All patients were DOTATATE-planned and there was a slight trend that patients with a high SUV max were more likely to have a relapse of the tumor reflecting macroscopic tumor at the beginning of the treatment.

With the lobe-based slope estimates, there might be a slight trend of a systematically shallower slope in AD than controls, although again further work is needed to show if this is a genuine characteristic of the disease or a side effect of our method.

The result showed that cisplatin treatment had a slight trend to reduce the viability of F4/80 + macrophages in MTCQ-WT-formed tumors, and the effect was also noted in MTCQ mir21–/– -formed tumors ( online supplemental figure 6B ).

The number of single sided substituents appears to have little influence on this angle and only a slight trend towards lower angles caused by exo substituent repulsion occurs.

However, there was no statistical difference in items of blood loss or operative time between two groups, only a slight trend that blood loss was more and operative time is longer.

However, a slight trend toward improved T cell viability with IL-2 and IL-7, along with their relevance for CAR T cell function, led us to include IL-2 and IL-7 in subsequent experiments ( Figure S3 I-L ).

Effect of vending machine condition on beverage choice From Table 1 , it can be seen that there was a slight trend towards healthier beverage choices for the vending machine that featured the traffic light system, with green beverages chosen 6·1 % more frequently and red beverages chosen 6·3 % less frequently relative to the control machine.

Regarding body composition—determined by BMI_sds—we found no significant association between BMI_sds and the frequency of aBAT even though we observed a slight trend towards higher aBAT rates in patients with lower BMI_sds.

sylvestris ) and the alignment method applied (BWA-MEM, Salmon), similar transcriptional patterns were found for both Austrian and Corsican provenances, with a large proportion of shared transcripts and a slight trend towards down-regulation.

Regarding pancreatic parameters, the relative pancreas weight showed a slight trend toward higher values in BP and Si-BP animals, compared with CP rats, and was significantly higher in the Si-CP ones.

In general, a significant part of the subsequent data of this scenario remained within the acceptance range, with a slight trend of underestimation.

Although there is a slight trend towards increased levels of PAPC and POPC, these changes are not statistically significant ( Figure 3A ).

We found the classes of apparent shapes and their representation to be very similar in RIM-BP2 −/− IHCs with a slight trend toward less stripe-shaped (62%) and more round (16%) appearance.

Interestingly, a slight trend towards improved event‐free survival was observed in patients successfully treated with the MitraClipTM device.

However, when looking at the level of individual locomotion scores ( table 6 ), there was a slight trend towards lower AC2 values than the researchers and clinicians suggesting that experience may lead to improved agreement on each specific locomotion score category.

With our 65 species data set, we observed a slight trend across the six core pathway genes ( supplementary fig.

There was a slight trend (in each country) for longer-duration contacts to have occurred outside ( Fig. 2 ). 3.8 Mean contacts by characteristics 3.8.1 Age, gender, households size The reported mean contacts for school-aged children (5–11 and 12–17 years of age) in the UK and Netherlands were similar at around 14 contacts per person per day, whereas Belgium and Switzerland were lower with both at around 10 contacts ( Table 3 ).

Careful analysis in HCAECs showed a slight trend of decreasing oxLDL uptake after preincubation with increasing amounts of adiponectin, but this trend did not reach statistical significance.

A slight trend toward reduced quantification precision was observed for larger loading amounts for the longest, 240 min gradient ( Figure 6 A).

Despite the small number of participants, in which the majority consisted of males, a particularly interesting finding of our study was that PLWH on cART-containing INSTI regimens exhibited a slight trend toward lower concentrations of LBP in peripheral plasma.

Then, in October 2020, when incidence rates sharply rose and new restrictions were introduced, we again observed a slight trend toward a slowing of PPT and an increase of boredom.