Oral Administration of Royal Jelly Restores Tear Secretion Capacity in Rat Blink-Suppressed Dry Eye Model by Modulating Lacrimal Gland Function by Toshihiro Imada (247479)

“…RJ restored the tear secretion capacity and decrease in LG ATP content and mitochondrial levels to the largest extent. …”

Changes in the sleep/wake pattern. by Claudia Laperchia (184747)

“…A significant decrease of both the mean duration of REM sleep episodes and REM latency is found at 14 dpi. …”

RI-OR2-TAT reduces the brain load of microglia and oxidative damage and stimulates neurogenesis in APP/PS1 transgenic mice. by Vadivel Parthsarathy (285723)

“…<p>Representative images of activated microglia in the cortical region of APP/PS1 mouse brains as shown by Iba1 immunostaining in animals treated with (<b>A</b>) 0.9% saline or (<b>B</b>) 100 nmol/kg RI-OR2-TAT in 0.9% saline; (<b>C</b>) quantitative analysis shows a decrease in mean microglial load in APP/PS1 mice treated with RI-OR2-TAT; detection of 8 oxo-guanine in the brains of animals treated with (<b>D</b>) 0.9% saline or (<b>E</b>) 100 nmol/kg RI-OR2-TAT; (<b>F</b>) quantitative analysis shows a decrease in mean 8 oxo-guanine staining in APP/PS1 mice treated with RI-OR2-TAT; detection of immature neurons as stained for doublecortin in the dentate gyrus of APP/PS1 mice treated with (<b>G</b>) 0.9% saline or (<b>H</b>) 100 nmol/kg RI-OR2-TAT; (<b>I</b>) quantitative analysis shows an increase in mean doublecortin staining in APP/PS1 mice treated with RI-OR2-TAT. …”

Average relative abundance of the 6 main taxa in undiluted saliva and dilutions 1 to 3 (10⁷ to 10⁵ bacteria per ml, respectively). by Giske Biesbroek (104538)

“…We used ANOVA statistics to test for significant differences. Dilution 3 shows a significant increase in Proteobacteria (p<0.001, mean 26,11% and 3.6%, SD 17.5 and 2.5% respectively) and a significant decrease in Bacteroidetes (p<0.001, mean 18.99% and 43.1% respectively) compared to the undiluted saliva samples. …”

Random Forest analysis of cohort 2 sample data using 25 metabolites selected from cohort. by Bryan M. Wittmann (679157)

“…<p>Metabolites are rank-ordered by their mean decrease accuracy score. A higher mean decrease accuracy value indicates a greater predictive value. …”

Long-term trends in the Twitter activity. by Riccardo Fusaroli (4062676)

“…<p>An OLS regression was used to predict tweet rate using a linear term representing the increasing time of the debate, and a quadratic term over the same time frame, which reflects an increase and then decrease. …”

Downregulation of NSF does not phenocopy the major effects of αSNAP knockdown on epithelial junctions. by Nayden G. Naydenov (174872)

“…<p>(<b>A</b>) Immunoblotting analysis shows that NSF-specific siRNA efficiently decreases expression of the targeted protein without affecting αSNAP and p120 catenin protein levels. …”

Oxygen concentration in the respiration chamber. by Pernille Nielsen (4249918)

“…<p>The decrease in oxygen concentration in the respiration chambers as a function of time in four different <i>Mytilus edulis</i> oxygen consumption measurements (filled circles). …”

Data_Sheet_1_Differential Response of Acidobacteria to Water Content, Soil Type, and Land Use During an Extended Drought in African Savannah Soils.pdf by Katharina J. Huber (12032741)

“…The decrease in soil water content was accompanied by a pronounced decrease in the fraction of active Acidobacteria (7.9–0.7%) while overall bacterial community size/cell counts remained constant. …”

Suppression of spontaneous activity leads to transient changes in remodeling dynamics. by Anna Rubinski (830498)

“…<p><b>A)</b> The slopes and offsets of linear regressions similar to those shown in <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004632#pcbi.1004632.g006" target="_blank">Fig 6A</a> for three consecutive 24 hour periods beginning 24 hours before exposure to TTX, immediately after exposure to TTX and 22 hours after exposure to TTX. …”

Temporal Trends in Exposures to Six Phthalates from Biomonitoring Data: Implications for Cumulative Risk by Jeanette M. Reyes (1306353)

“…Over this period, there was a 2.2-fold decrease in the mean HI (0.34 to 0.15) and a 7.2-fold decrease in the percentage of participants with an HI > 1 (5.7% to 0.8%), indicating an overall decrease in combined exposure to these phthalates. …”

SREBP-1 is dispensable but not required for neuritogenic effect of SIM. by Varshiesh Raina (457377)

“…FAS transcripts showed a small decrease at 12 hrs whereas ACC2 transcript showed a significant (<i>p</i> < 0.05^*) decrease at 2 hrs and 12 hrs. …”

The Plastic Footprint of the U.S. Agricultural System by Katie Malarkey (18020788)

“…Plastic use in food production is a complex part of this challenge: plastics can increase crop yields, extend growing seasons, and decrease manual labor, but their production, use, and waste leads to environmental and human health impacts. …”

DataSheet_1_Noninvasive Analysis of Tree Stems by Electrical Resistivity Tomography: Unraveling the Effects of Temperature, Water Status, and Electrode Installation.pdf by Andrea Ganthaler (7860380)

“…With progressive tree dehydration, average ER increased in all species except in B. pendula, and measured resistivities in the peripheral stem areas of both angiosperms and conifers were clearly linearly related to the tree water status. Removal of the periderm resulted in a slight decrease of high ER peaks. …”

Estimation of DCX+ cell density in the GCL including SGZ across the entire human lifespan. by Rolf Knoth (248345)

“…The regression curve shows a log-log-linear decrease (Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient (PPC): -0.95102; <i>p</i>  =  0.0001).…”

Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunctions and their Associated Factors in Pregnant Women in an Outpatient Prenatal Care Clinic by Julianna Azevedo Guendler (7453757)

“…The total PSRI score showed a significant decrease from the prepregnancy period (mean score = 89.8, “excellent”) to the pregnancy period (mean score = 59.2, “good”). …”

UPS in RVLM participates in brain stem cardiovascular regulation during experimental brain death. by Carol H. Y. Wu (196466)

“…<p>Temporal changes in mean systemic arterial pressure (MSAP), heart rate (HR) or power density of the low-frequency (LF) component of SAP signals in rats that received pretreatment by microinjection bilaterally into RVLM of lactacystin (Lacta; 1 nmol) (A), proteasome inhibitor II (PiII; 1 nmol) (B) or their solvents (Vehicle), followed by IV administration (at arrows) of LPS (15 mg kg⁻¹) or saline. …”

Representation of the relationships between peri-domestic, household and individual variables and hookworm burden. by Rachel L. Pullan (231093)

“…Both analyses address hookworm intensity (epg): the spatial analysis uses a negative binomial model, incorporating an over dispersion parameter (k) to account for extra-Poisson variation; quantitative genetic analysis (genetic variance component analysis) uses a linear regression model, therefore data was log-transformed prior to analysis. …”

Data Sheet 1_Characterization of mining fracture network development in overlying rock layers of deep mining in ordos basin.docx by Xudong Wang (286395)

“…In order to study the deformation and fracture evolution characteristics of overburden under deep mining conditions, this paper studies the first mining face of a mine in Ordos, Asia, and combines a variety of research methods such as similarity simulation, fractal geometry and percolation theory to carry out research. …”

The effect of mutation rate variation. by Thomas Mailund (51584)

“…We split the alignment into segments geometrically distributed with mean length 500 bp and 2 kbp, and the mutation rate is then scaled by a random value chosen uniformly in the range 0.75 to 1.25 or 0.5 to 1.5. …”