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Fat content in Saanen was lower during EL and ML than during LL stage ( p < 0.05), whereas both the Mediterranean breed clusters presented an increasing trend in fat as lactation proceeds ( p < 0.05).

The average annual percent change (AAPC) in the incidence of gastric cancer from 2003 to 2012 among the male population, South Korea, Japan, Malta, Canada, Cyprus, and Switzerland showed an increasing trend ( P > 0.05); among the female population, Canada [AAPC, 1.2; (95%Cl, 0.5–2), P < 0.05] showed an increasing trend; and South Korea, Ecuador, Thailand, and Cyprus showed an increasing trend ( P > 0.05).

Cyto-morphometric analysis showed an increasing trend in mean nuclear diameter from benign to malignant cases while the mean cytoplasmic diameter decreased, value of P < 0.05 was observed indicating a statistically significant difference between the two groups.

A positive statistical test (Z>0 and p <0.05) indicated an increasing trend, while a negative test (Z<0 and p <0.05) indicated a decreasing trend.

Neither mean temperature nor freeze–thaw events showed an increasing trend over the course of our 40-year study (mean temperature: −0.397 ± 0.16, p > 0.05, freeze–thaw events: 0.03 ± 0.025, p = 0.02). 3.2.

In our case, there was also an increasing trend ( p > 0.05) in the antioxidant capacity when the temperature was augmented, as well as when highly acidic and alkaline conditions were used.

An increasing trend of hospital mortality with increasing SIRS scores was not evident ( p > 0.05) (Fig. 2 a).

The water use efficiency (WUE) of Goji berry under both salt stress and alkali stress showed an increasing trend with an increasing concentration of salt or alkali (P < 0.05, Fig. 1E ).

Overall increasing or decreasing trends in femoral diaphyseal OPD by region (Table 1 ) A regression analysis to test for the presence of continual increases or decreases in the overall OPD of the femoral diaphysis showed that, for femur A, the bone density exhibited an increasing trend in the distal direction for the medial region only ( p < 0.05); the other regions did not exhibit any clear trend.

MUC16 expression in pre and post-treatment groups using both drugs (methotrexate and cisplatin) was up-regulated and displayed an increasing trend in the placebo (4.31–5.11%), AF(D)NMs (6.13–6.36%) and IV-drug groups (7.67–8.14%) ( p < 0.05), whilst in the NMs (D) group, MUC16 expression was down-regulated (2.67–3.3%) ( Figure 11 ).

Both LOM LSPV denervation and LSG Denervation significantly reduce cardiac sympathetic nervous activity (lower LF: 1.05±1.14 vs 2.36 ± 2.34 ms 2 in group 2 and 0.51 ± 0.39 vs 2.24 ± 1.53 ms 2 in group 3; and LF/HF ratio: 0.35±0.21 vs 1.65 ± 1.04 in group 2 and 0.27±0.28 vs 1.42 ± 0.77 in group 3; all P<0.05) but neither had a significant effect on parasympathetic nervous activity though which showed an increasing trend (HF: 2.69±2.00 vs 2.01 ± 2.14 in group 2 and 2.66±1.74 vs 1.95 ± 1.60 in group 3, P>0.05).

Among the septic shock patients, nCD64 showed an increasing trend in the nonsurvivors ( P < 0.05). nCD64 count was compared between survivor and nonsurvivor patients [ Table 4 ] at days 0, 4, and 8.

The results showed that the assignments of the significant voxels in V1 and V2 had a decreasing trend (Mann–Kendall test, p < 0.05) with the CNN layer, whereas the assignments of the significant voxels in V3 and V4 had an increasing trend (Mann–Kendall test, p < 0.05) for both subjects.

At inclusion, multi-cytokine analysis revealed an increasing trend of serum RANTES, plasma interleukin- (IL-) 4 and IL-6 levels compared to baseline ( p > 0.05 for all differences).

However, it showed an increasing trend with storage time ( p < .05).

These results showed that the expressions of Hsp27 had an increasing trend in the ESCC tissue compared with that of normal tissue ( p <0.05).

The mRNA levels of all the IGF1 signal pathway components were increased or showed an increasing trend under HFD conditions, such as the levels for IGF1, IGF1R, AKT1 and steroidogenic factor 1 (SF1) ( P < 0.05, P < 0.01).

During probe test, escape latency of BPA‐treated rats showed no significant difference with the control group, but an increasing trend ( p > 0.05, Figure 2 D).

There was an increasing trend ( p < 0.05 for trend) in the number of worldwide publications in each field of research, except prevention ( p = 0.775 for trend) that shows fluctuation.

SGPT/ALT levels showed an increasing trend for all groups in the middle of the experiment ( p < 0.05 for ND group) but decreased at the end (vs.baseline), apart from the CD + Col group that preserved the non statistically significant increase.

Whereas, all samples stored under MAP2 conditions showed an increasing trend after day 8 compared to the samples stored in MAP1 storage condition ( p < 0.05).

The fixed peak water area of Fresh group, IF group, SHUAF-40 group, SVUAF-20 group, DOUAF-20 (H) 20 (V) group, DOUAF-40 (H) 20 (V) group and fresh sample group showed an increasing trend, while the peak water area of free water showed a decreasing trend ( P < 0.05).

The CAT activity of the chickens in the BL group displayed an increasing trend ( P > 0.05) but did not differ from the NC and PC groups ( P > 0.05).

The invasive ability of HTR-8/SVneo cells cocultured with hUCMSCs also showed an increasing trend at 5 ( P < 0.05) and 10 ( P < 0.01) × 10 4 cells/well compared with HTR-8/SVneo cells cocultured with the same number of hFF cells (Figures 6(a) ((c1)–(c4), (d1)–(d4)) and 6(b) ). 3.5.

BMI also showed an increasing trend with age, with geographical differences (all P < 0.05; Figures 1 – 2 ).