The phrase "a mild reduction of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a slight decrease in quantity, intensity, or degree of something.
Example: "The study showed a mild reduction of symptoms in patients after the treatment."
Alternatives: "a slight decrease in" or "a small reduction in".
In contrast, MRI findings were substantially unmodified, showing only a mild reduction of brain sagging, with persistent subdural fluid collection in the same regions, epidural venous engorgement and diffuse meningeal enhancement in supratentorial and infratentorial regions (images not shown).
A simple chemical approach has been developed for the synthesis of graphene through a mild reduction of graphene oxide (GO) using metal nanoparticles as the catalyst for the hydrolysis reaction of NaBH4 at room temperature.
Therefore, the mitochondrial ATP generation is also reduced and addition of oligomycin able to promote a mild reduction of intracellular ATP in HPC compared to LPC (Fig. 2c).
When the LXR-agonist TO1317 was added to the palmitate conditions, it gave a mild reduction of palmitate toxicity in fa/fa beta cells, whereas fa/- cells were efficiently protected.
This animal model reflects the pathogenesis of human spinocerebellar ataxia [24], and exhibits extensive cerebellar atrophy, including a substantial loss of Purkinje cells and a mild reduction of granule cells, along with decreased thickness of the molecular layer and internal granule layer.
Thus, TGF- β1 led to a mild reduction of Runx2 mRNA expression in Panc-1 cells and IPSCs.
Lastly, one might expect a milder reduction of iCa amplitudes in mdx muscle fibres, as a large fraction of DHPR should not be directly affected by the absence of dystrophin because (i) dystrophin is poorly expressed in the t-tubules as compared to DHPR and (ii) colocalization in wt fibres was about one third.
A mild reduction reaction of Na2CO3, Mg and CCl4 at 450 °C [15] or the reduction of hexachlorobutadiene by NaN3 at 400 °C [16] has been reported to produce hollow carbon spheres successfully.
We found a mild reduction in accuracy of the posterior means with up to 600 bp of sequence, but after that, posterior means converged on those of the true tree.
A mild reduction in level of GM-CSF (p = 0.09) and insignificant changes in IL-4, IL-10, IL-5 and IL-12 levels were observed (Fig. 1b).
There was a mild reduction in bulk of the thalamus.
