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In this study population, the effect of benzene exposure on leukemia did not appear to persist indefinitely, but rather diminished with time since exposure.

Additionally, protracted studies confirmed that the risk of breast tumors did not increase with time but rather diminished, suggesting that the combination of weight loss and attentive clinical care in a trial setting conferred a detection bias for breast cancer a valuable benefit for the patients but a substantial delay for drug development (34, 35).

Boiling of the samples for 1-2 min prior to gel loading did not decrease or increase the amount of the 140-160 kD band, but rather diminished the detectable amount of VGLUT1, and thus indicating that even higher oligomeric forms/aggregates were generated (data not shown;note smear at the top of the gel).

These days, alas, Cowell is rather diminished – but so is our politics (almost inconceivably, given how shocking things were before).

Prince: Purple Rain (1984) Fifteen years of being a laughing stock have rather diminished Prince's reputation, but this sounded like nothing else when it came out.

This includes no changes in ERK phosphorylation and cyclin D accumulation but rather a diminished induction of SKP2 and corresponding stabilization of p27 and p21 levels (Fig. 7B).

I do think it's very difficult to have an ethical vision of capitalism which is simply based on a rather diminished set of moral rules".

Dubai's The World archipelago hadn't even opened when the same developers announced The Universe, thereby making The World sound like a rather diminished prototype before anyone had moved in.

He emerges from these elections a rather diminished figure, whose wheeling and dealing skills may be sorely tested as he sets about building a new coalition.

Phosphatidylserine, which is a relatively minor membrane component, is three times more prevalent in DRM than in the bulk plasma membrane, while phosphatidylinositols are rather diminished, as are phosphatidylcholine species [20].

Therefore observed effects are rather diminished than amplified.