“a slight trend”

Only a slight trend toward a lower STAT5 phosphorylation was observed in PHA stimulated cells after Tofa treatment, while STAT6 phosphorylation didn't show appreciable changes.

However, there was a slight trend towards an increase in AST levels in the groups receiving OTA and a decrease when additional Opoka was used (refer to Table 5 ).

However, no significant change was found with respect to Bmp6 expression ( Figure 5D ), although a slight trend towards decreased expression was noted, which may reflect the higher iron demand status.

Compared with placebo, negative trends were observed in the severe group, whereas a slight trend toward improved outcomes was observed in the critical group.

One of the main methods of preventing tuberculosis, coordinated by PHC, is immunization with the BCG vaccine, which showed a slight trend toward a decrease in the country but remained at values near 100.0%.

Although it was not significant, the closed-loop condition showed a slight trend toward increased proprioceptive shift relative to the open-loop motor and open-loop sensory conditions.

Statistical analysis of inaccuracy and bias in each method has a substantial contribution to the debate concerning the importance and limits of different age estimation methods; in our study, the dental and skeletal methods showed an excellent correlation with real age, especially under 2 years: in this age range, indeed inaccuracy from all the methods is similar, with a slight trend to underestimation.

The primary endpoint of a significant reduction in terms of ARR was not met, whereas a slight trend of ARR reduction, better MRI outcomes and lower progression of EDSS was reported in the vitamin D group.

However, a slight trend was observed in the sample, indicating that a higher percentage of weight loss might be related to a decrease in HH levels.

There was only a slight trend in the ALT group for limitations in fictive dating of a new partner because there were no significant limitations in existing relationships in both groups.

Likewise, the RRP is prolonged as the disease progresses, but it tends to keep constant or even shows a slight trend of decrease in control (gray band in Fig 3D ).

There is a slight trend for the TSI analysis of 20 ppm per year, and this trend is about a factor of two larger than the TIM TSI stability uncertainty of 10 ppm per year.

His hearing interlocutors showed a slight trend in the opposite direction, using more bimodal productions over time.

As the tumor grade worsened (i.e., became higher), although a slight trend of increasing rStO 2 and decreasing rHb was observed, it was not statistically significant (n = 29).

When the gasification slag was 0.3 kg, as the slurry mass fraction increased from 72% to 82%, this strength showed a slight trend of first decreasing, and then increasing with the gasification residue, which was insoluble in water and often suspended in the filling slurry in flocculent form, resulting in uneven distribution of slurry aggregates and a reduction in strength of the filling body.

Similarly, when examining N-mt OXPHOS contact genes only, there was a slight trend, though statistically non-significant, for genes with a higher proportion of mt contact residues to have higher d N /d S ratios ( supplementary fig.

Overall, for GBM and non-GBM combined, we observed a slight trend of decreasing incidence rate with more recent period (3% decrease between 1992-1995 and 2004-2007).

We also detected VP16 mRNA expression at the indicated times and found no significant change in RNA levels although there was a slight trend of reduction (Additional file 1 : Figure S3).

Despite a slight trend for lower plateau-peak ratios with isobutylamine, there was no significant difference between the two genotypes for both stimuli in any of these parameters (unpaired t-test: P = 0.09–0.93).

Only 5 days of treatment showed a slight trend toward an increase in the production of total ROS (Figure 2C ).

Although participants continued to show a slight trend towards liberal estimates in the variable condition as in the virtual reality studies of Lin et al.

In both A375 (see Supplementary Figure S3a online) and SK-Mel-28 (see Supplementary Figure S3b ) cell lines, there was a slight trend toward increased invasion of the ABCB5 mutant clones, along with a trend toward reduced invasion in WT ABCB5 clones.

The four birds that seroconverted after inoculation with the H7N3 shorebird isolate and maintained for 63 DPI showed a slight trend toward seronegativity by bELISA; one bird (#61) was borderline seronegative with a sample/negative control (S/N) ratio of 0·50 at 63 DPI ( Figure 2 ).

These showed statistically non-significant differences, with a slight trend favouring BRS except with stent thrombosis.

Although this study did not incorporate information prior to 2008, we see that from that year on there was a slight trend towards an increase in the number of births taking place in the private sector, a phenomenon that can be explained by the changes in the health care system.