Example sentences for: decrease

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  • The increase in unit cost resulting from a ten-percent decrease in per capita volume for a range of volumes is shown in Table 3.

  • In contrast to the findings for extracellular Countin, levels of secreted CMF were the same for Ax4 and BS153 cells (CMF panels), thus ruling out a general decrease in sectreted proteins in the mutant strain.

  • Naturally occurring triterpenoids, such as ursolic acid, have been found to have mild anti-inflammatory effects [ 18 27 ] . These have been improved with the development of synthetic triterpenoids such as CDDO, offering a potential therapeutic tool for the treatment of arthritis and other diseases [ 19 20 21 ] . Furthermore, it has been reported that CDDO at high doses (5-10 μM) can have pro-apoptotic effects, ideal for the treatment of leukemia but of concern with regard to chondrocyte cell death [ 25 26 ] . However, we found that CDDO, at concentrations that decrease MMP-1 and MMP-13 expression (namely 300 nM and 1 μM), did not cause cell death.

  • In our previous morphological study of non-diabetic aging human lenses by SEM it was concluded that the innermost nuclear fibers of the human lens significantly decrease in size and change shape with age and cataractogenesis [ 4 ] , a process termed compaction.

  • [ 5, 6], which revealed that the hormone insensitivity produced by cellular transformation with v-mos (a serine/threonine protein kinase that acts as an oncogene) results from both a decrease in the nuclear retention of liganded receptor and a decrease in the reutilization of GR protein that cycles back into the cytoplasm.


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