At the end of the story called "Self-Defense," upon realizing the true background of a man he has recently helped release into the world, this defense lawyer lets loose a single muted expression of disgust, directed not so much at his client as at himself.
It is uncertain what effect an increase in MUTED expression will have, however decreased variability of expression might reflect a loss of regulation of MUTED activity.
Following JHMV infection, we observed the cleavage of procaspase 3 (35 kDa) into its active form (17 kDa), in combination with cleavage of the caspase 3 target PARP, and muted expression of Bcl2, a member of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-x family of proteins, confirming previous reports [24] [27] that in vitro JHMV triggers apoptosis within infected oligodendrocyte cultures (Figure 8B D).
To winkle out meaning from indirect or muted expression flatters and delights our intelligence; it is a cynosure of urbanity.
That slightly muted expression of pity, of concern: She's not married?
Mr. Mandelson's own appearance brought only muted expressions of thanks for his service from Labor colleagues and from David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists.
His precipitous fall from marquee stardom was rapid, humiliating, widely remarked upon as it was happening, and greeted around town with muted expressions of schadenfreude.
Even the audience had muted expressions on their faces from nothing at all to forced smiles, and responded with only limited displays of laughter.
Across these contigs, corals acclimated to higher temperatures (31 °C or 29 33 °C) exhibited a muted stress response the magnitude of expression change before and after heat stress was less than in 29 °C acclimated corals.
Despite the infectious etiology of their illness, sepsis non-survivors had a muted immune response as measured by peripheral blood gene expression.
In contrast, Figueiredo et al [ 22] reported that animals in proestrus show a muted acute stress response (as measured by c-Fos expression) compared to that of males or females in estrus or diestrus.
