“a slight trend”

Although we did not see any change in necrotic core size, we did see a slight trend increase of fibrotic cap thickness in mice with MF MMP8 deficiency ( Fig 5D , E ).

Whereas in NCV group this degree of correlation between the changes in the enlargement of different aortic segments has a slight trend to decrease towards the aortic end, in CV group, the degree of correlation has an increasing trend towards the aortic end (Figure 24 ).

Accordingly, we found that it is most challenging to detect the direction of a slight trend (sensu Wauchope et al., 2019 ) when temporal changes in observers occur (Table S1 ).

However, a slight trend might be visible in AZD5582-treated RD-GFP spheroids in E:T ratios of 0.5:1 and 5:1. 3.2.

A slight trend in ‘selective’ coverage at subsequent child health review visits has been reported by others. 38 The relatively short duration of infant feeding captured on the child health surveillance schemes may restrict the potential of exploiting the linked records in research; data schemes that provided more information on the duration of infant feeding have been discontinued.

Assessment of the absolute counts of central memory (CM) and effector memory (EM) CD8 + T cells during AZD5582 treatment showed fluctuations in both the viremic and aviremic groups, with a slight trend in both groups for the EM population to expand ( Fig. 6C ).

For the other cytokines examined, there was a slight trend in the same direction with higher levels in treated animals, except for RANKL, however none showed significant difference (Table 1 ).

Viral densities by time over the study period did not change for RSV B, but showed a slight trend for decrease over time for RSV A (see Supplementary Material Figure S2 ).

On the other hand, Pielou's evenness values indicated that the environmental (A4N5 = 0.8279, A5 = 0.8357) and the TMA treatment (A4N5 = 0.8328, A5 = 0.8142) samples showed a slight trend towards lower evenness (Table S1 ), suggesting that a few taxa become dominant under these conditions.

The GOF test suggested that there was a slight trend (i.e. heteroscedasticity) in Ring 4 vs.

Publication Bias: The funnel plot showed a slight trend of asymmetry (Figure S18), suggesting potential small-study effects, but the overall extent was limited.

The rest of organs showed remarkably similar weights in spite of a slight trend of cafeteria diet-fed rats to increase their size in, in accordance with their higher body size.

The JAK2 V617F VAF was generally maintained across both HD and ET MSC‐pre‐seeded scaffolds, with a slight trend towards a higher JAK2 V617F mutation burden in the ET MSC‐pre‐seeded scaffolds, though this result did not reach statistical significance (Figure 3E ).

However, Thompson et al .[ 1 ] found a slight trend toward a higher incidence of infection if primary repair was delayed longer than 24 h after the initial injury compared with those eyes that received primary repair within 24 h; however, this trend did not reach significance.

It is also interesting to notice that the HVG degree shows a slight trend to decrease during its evolution, for the 1-year windows.

From the main methods ( Figure 6 ), there is a slight trend of using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) instead of traditional cryptography (PKC); however, the evaluation metrics present good results for both cases.

Our results did show a slight trend that if the husband was dissatisfied (perhaps indicating some conflict or disappointment), the odds of PPD were higher (OR >1), though not significantly so.

In the non-syndromic patients, a slight trend of lower TREC values was observed in the conotruncal group compared to non-conotruncal although not significant ( p = 0.152).

The results showed that the athletes’ performances demonstrated a slight trend of improvement with the decrease in temperature, among which the running performance improved more.

Therefore, the value obtained is not significant, although it shows a slight trend toward being significant.

Consistent with the literature, there is a slight trend toward steeper multi-pulse integration slopes correlating with lower rate discrimination thresholds [ 38 ].

Contrary to our expectations, the 72 h-exposure of the cells to glucotoxicity does not significantly increase the levels of p16 INK4a immunostaining irrespective of the cellular compartment, although a slight trend towards increase was found at 10 and 33 mM glucose compared to 5 mM glucose (Fig. 2 a−c).

A slight trend towards negative correlations was observed between the extent of CpG methylation between −10 kb and −500 bp upstream of the TSS.

There is a slight trend indicating an expansion in the areas with GWLs below −20 and −40 m compared to the early 2010s.

However, there was a slight trend to reduce cellular collagen I quantities (Fig. 3 A,B).