Modeling biophysical manipulations. by Benjamin Lansdell (669859)

“…Sub plots from left to right: speed of wave front at rest (when ) as a function of conductance , velocity indicates maximum wave-front speed since and is monotonically decreasing, point at which becomes zero represents excitability threshold; wave-front speed as function of refractory variable for three different values of ; from 5000 s of simulation of model with indicated values of interwave-inteval; wave speed distribution; and mean wave size. …”

Growth of three different microbial species following exposure to whole blood collected from Anna’s Hummingbirds. by Andrea M. DeRogatis (8962751)

“…Values shown represent a percent change in microbial growth, where a negative value indicates a decrease in the percentage of microbial growth following incubation with whole blood.…”

Quantitative Western blots to estimate the amounts of HP1 and HP2 in adult fly nuclear preparations. by Elena Gracheva (262132)

“…<p>(A) The <i>vig^EP812</i> strain shows a decrease in HP1 similar to the <i>Su(var)3-9⁰⁶</i> mutant. …”

Structural and biochemical evidences for the effect of exercise and intermittent hypobaric hypoxia on the recovery from eccentric exercise-induced muscle damage in trained rats by David Rizo-Roca (601393)

“…<p>In rat soleus muscle, a recuperation programme of IHH combined with light exercise seems to induce a faster<br>recovery of the mean muscle fibres size and a significant decrease in the percentage of abnormal fibres, without affecting neither the percentage of fibre types nor the fibre shape.…”

Delay of wound closure and epithelialization in septic animals. by Katharina Sommer (463202)

“…Percentage of closed wound area on day 0–16 (measured every second day). Septic mice have a highly significant delay in epithelialization as there is a decrease in percentage of closed wound area from day 2 to day 12 after wounding. …”

Experiment 1. by Jiehui Qian (294581)

“…<p>a) Two bars were presented during the 30-s adaptation phase; two converging lines were shown during the afterimage phase. b) Left: the perceive stimuli during the afterimage phase; Right: the purple bar indicates the mean illusory decrease of the lower bar length in Experiment 1, 15.05%; the shadowed bar indicates the illusory effect of a similar size-distance illusion reported in our previous study [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0159228#pone.0159228.ref010" target="_blank">10</a>]. …”

Feature weights for the LD classification algorithm in predicting high- vs. low- perceived naturalness of the images. by Marc G. Berman (650667)

“…A positive weight indicates that that increasing this feature would lead to increased perceived naturalness; a negative weight indicates that increasing this feature would lead to a decrease in perceived naturalness. …”

IIM-derived cells show diminished oxygen consumption rate, high mitochondrial membrane potential but similar total ATP levels than control-derived cells. by Carla Basualto-Alarcón (9667079)

“…<b>(B)</b> Oxygen consumption rate (OCR) in control and IIM-derived cells from biopsy samples showed a significant decrease of ATP-linked OCR and a marked tendency to decrease basal and maximal OCR when compared to controls. …”

mEPSC amplitude and frequency change in Hu97/18 SPNs. by Karolina Kolodziejczyk (550934)

“…(E) The mean mEPSC frequency trended towards a decrease in Hu97/18 SPNs but did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.052). …”

Kinetic profile of PIU. by Nadav Ben-Dov (167666)

“…The cells were initially loaded with Dextran-FITC by mean of PIU. The time dependent exponential decrease in cellular fluorescence suggests the involvement of efflux mechanisms which are concentration dependent, while the dependence on temperature suggests the efflux to be a methabolic driven process. …”

CD14 controls LTA and Pam₃CSK₄ internalization and NF-κB activation. by Karim J. Brandt (362950)

“…Displayed are the mean +/- SD of the percentage of corrected fluorescence index (MFI) of specific extracellular TLR2 ligands staining at each time point.…”

Drug Absorption Efficiency in <em>Caenorhbditis elegans</em> Delivered by Different Methods by Shan-Qing Zheng (382120)

“…The concentration of resveratrol and FUDR increased gradually within <i>C. elegans</i> and reached the highest during 12 hours to one day and then decreased slowly. At the same time point, the higher the drug concentration, the higher the metabolism rate. …”

Imaging of unfunctionalised Ag nanoparticles with varying scan parameters. by Julian Stirling (5661418)

“…Both images have a width of 50 nm.</p>…”

Atg7 knockdown inhibited heat-induced autophagy and apoptosis in testes of mice. by Mianqiu Zhang (148236)

“…(D) At 12 h after heat treatment, Atg7-targeting siRNA testis exhibited a marked decrease in the rate of cell apoptosis compared to Neg control testis. …”

The synergistic effect of RAL and HAFi in the protein expression of pro-HB-EGF in mouse skin and in human skin atrophy. by Laurent Barnes (358736)

“…<p><b>A.</b> Western blot analysis on the protein extracts of vehicle-, RAL-, HAFi- or RAL- and HAFi-treated SKH1 hairless mice for active HB-EGF (∼15 kDa) (a), pro-HB-EGF (∼25 kDa) (b) and erbB1 (∼170 kDa) (c) and loading control α-tubulin (50 kDa) (d). …”

Depletion of ß-amylase in HM1:IMSS trophozoites prevent mucus layer degradation. by Roman Thibeaux (499523)

“…<p>A. Immuno-detection of β-amylase in dsRNA treated parasites. …”

Nutrient digestibility, nitrogen excretion, and milk production of mid-lactation Jersey × Friesian cows fed diets containing different proportions of rumen-undegradable protein by ABDUR REHMAN (10362992)

“…Cattle fed 60% RUP showed a linear decrease in N intake compared to that in the other groups. …”

Downregulation of COP9 signalosome subunits differentially affects the CSN complex and target protein stability-3 by Andreas Peth (85734)

“…The upper panel shows the phosphorylation of c-Jun by autoradiography demonstrating a decrease of c-Jun phosphorylation by more than 50% as estimated by densitometry. …”

Gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT) outcomes in eyes with open-angle glaucoma resistant to maximum treatment by Bruno M. de Faria (12684057)

“…A statistically significant difference was observed between overall mean follow-up intraocular pressure and mean preoperative intraocular pressure (p<0.001) in all follow-up visits. …”

<i>In Utero</i> nicotine exposure model and cephalometric analysis of mandible. by E. L. Durham (6837713)

“…Data categorized by sex with mean per exposure indicated with grey bar. Total mandibular length <b>(D)</b> did not vary with nicotine exposure, however, <i>in utero</i> exposure to high dose nicotine decreased the height of the ramus <b>(E)</b> significantly compared to low dose nicotine, perhaps indicating a dose dependent effect. …”