The phrase "are modestly increased" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a slight or moderate increase in quantity, quality, or intensity in various contexts, such as economics, statistics, or general descriptions.
Example: "The prices of essential goods are modestly increased to reflect the rising costs of production."
Alternatives: "are slightly raised" or "are moderately elevated."
Conclusions: Distribution of H&N rhabdomyosarcoma IRS types is similar to that for all primary sites, with the exception that embryonal types are modestly increased while alveolar type is mildly decreased.
Similarly, in rat skeletal muscles subjected to denervation, the levels of the αα dimer are modestly increased, while the levels of the ββ-dimer are decreased [ 148].
In contrast, insulin resistance is characterized by a state of chronic low-grade inflammation, whereby circulating TLR4 ligands (LPS and NEFA) are modestly increased by 2- to 3-fold [ 15, 20].
Interestingly, prolonged exposure to the GR ligand corticosterone has dynamic structural consequences, eliminating prelimbic cortical dendritic spines initially, but then with a washout period, spine densities are modestly increased relative to un-injected control mice.
In contrast, CDC6 knockdown in wild-type KRAS cells over the same time period does not elicit upregulation of p53, although p21WAF1/CIP1 levels are modestly increased from a relatively high steady-state level.
One sound approach would be to link benefit levels to life expectancy, so that as people live longer, future benefits would be modestly reduced while payroll taxes that support Social Security would be modestly increased.
Despite the finding that p53-Mdm2 isteraction is modestly increased in K6R cells, p53 is more stable in K6R cells with reduced ubiquitination when compared to wild type p53, indicating that the C-terminal lysine residues are the preferential targets for ubiquitination.
K8 and K18 RNAs are easily detected in hES lines and is modestly increased during embryoid body differentiation.
In young mice, increased Bax expression results in dramatic thymic lymphopenia concordant with previous findings [19] which was modestly increased in p27 −/− mice.
However, despite reduced growth cells knocked down in LAMP-1 displayed LAMP-2 levels that were modestly increased relative to control incubations.
Although this approach allows us to maximize sensitivity, the rate of erroneously reported variants (specificity) is modestly increased at coverage depths of ≤10x (Fig. 3B).
