“a weak trend”

No major differences in serum VEGF concentrations were found between the groups (median 70 and 50 pg/mL, Table 3 ), although there was a weak trend for higher levels in the HTx group.

Lines with two or more T-DNA inserts, and thus more copies of OsNAS2 , displayed only a weak trend for higher grain NA concentrations.

This indicates a weak trend that strains with higher resistance levels tend to show slightly stronger inhibitory effects on the tested pathogens, although the results are not statistically significant.

The interaction between premorbid level of ID and diagnostic status was not significant; however, a weak trend indicated that impairments associated with MCI‐DS and AD‐dementia were slightly greater for the moderate ID group compared to the mild ID group.

However, after 1 hour, only a weak trend remained towards decreased transport of β-glucan in both models ( Fig. 6E ).

No clear association was detected with age, and only a weak trend was observed with body mass.

The lack of correlation obtained using the best docking score (R 2 = 0.03) was improved using the Amber MM-GBSA ΔG bind values (Pearson R 2 = 0.37 and Spearman ρ = 0.64), which indicated a weak trend (Fig.

In contrast, the higher dose of JZL184 did not restore microglial soma size, showing only a weak trend in the cortex and no improvement in the hippocampus, and unexpectedly increased microglial density in the cortex ( Figure 4 B,C).

Third, the results suggest only a weak trend toward improved patient outcomes.

As can be seen, there is a weak trend for neck length to decrease relative to body mass.

While we found a weak trend for cells with small dendritic fields to have higher median thresholds, cells with smaller somas and/or dendritic fields were better able to keep up with repetitive stimulation at frequencies of 10–200 Hz, with the advantage increasing with stimulus frequency.

The correlation between change in tuning gain and coupling strength across sessions in MSTd showed a weak trend but was not significant ( r = −0.23, p = 0.19).

As a conclusion of the international studies, in most cases there has only been a weak trend toward greater effectiveness with higher volumes of treated hip fracture patients, and it is likely that the feasible improvements in effectiveness related to the surgeon or hospital volume are negligible compared with the unavoidable major adverse outcomes related to the hip fracture condition itself [ 43 - 60 ].

Spectrum stacking Time-frequency analyses can only present a weak trend in the spectrum.

The task we used indeed activated both the SMA and the ipsilateral PMd and we do see a weak trend for volume changes in PMd but perhaps the local mechanisms that results in volume increases are limited to the immediate spatial vicinity and are not robust enough to affect downstream regions.

EGb 761 ® /placebo ratios for phenotyping metrics were close to unity for all CYP enzymes studied, except for CYP2C9, which may suggest a weak trend towards induction of these CYP2C family enzymes (Zadoyan et al., 2012[ 199 ]).

In addition, by plotting the fitted κ 0 /2 π as a function of the resonance wavelength measured from 1260 nm to 1630 nm, a weak trend showing a larger κ 0 /2 π at a shorter wavelength is observed (see Supplementary Information ).

We did not find any significant influence of RCT on PD-L1 or PD-1 expression, at best a weak trend towards a reduced PD-1 expression following RCT.

Data from this study shows testicular GPX1/GPX4 concentration increased significantly in NaSe-, Met-, and NanoSe-groups vs the control (at least p ≤ 0.05); testicular SOD and CAT activities remained unchanged, with only a weak trend to increase in the NanoSe group.

However, at 6 and 12 months, sleep onset latency exhibited a weak trend-level relationship with fecal melatonin, though this did not withstand FDR correction.

KIR2DL3/KIR2DL3+C2C2 A weak trend of increased representation of homozygous KIR2DL3 in the absence of its' HLA-C ligand (i.e. homozygous C2 group) in the IP infants compared to the EU infants was noted ( P = 0.086; OR = 2.87).

All groups showed a weak trend for representing cumulative area in addition to number.

A weak trend to more lipid deposition with younger age was not reflected by gene expression analysis of the adipogenic marker Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG) in cells from the five youngest and five oldest donors of the study ( Fig. 3G ).

As a weak trend, we observe that cells with higher transcriptional activity tend to exhibit higher nuclear and cytoplasmic areas, supporting previous studies showing that the cell volume contributes to transcriptional output (Kempe et al , 2015 ; Padovan‐Merhar et al , 2015 ).

A weak trend towards higher CD4/CD8 ratios was also observed in those HIV-negative individuals with H . pylori infection, compared to those without H . pylori infection (2.12 vs. 1.80, p = 0.13).