Sentence examples for diminished extent from inspiring English sources

This observation indicated that ER remained functional in tamoxifen-resistant MCF-7 cells, albeit to a much diminished extent.

The diminished extent of matrix mineralization after ZOL treatment was, therefore, ascribable to decreased cell proliferation and increased apoptosis, not to decreased osteogenic differentiation of osteoblasts.

Cells isolated from Crouzon mice also exhibited less alkaline phosphatase enzyme activity at day 18 of differentiation and mineralized to a diminished extent than cells isolated from wild type littermates and 2(g)).

Specifically, when both IL-6 and TGF-β1 were added together, ERK1/2 activation was observed with similar timing as with IL-6 alone but to a diminished extent.

Albeit to a diminishing extent, it does a similar job today.

Pensioners between £100 and £135 also benefit, but to a diminishing extent as this savings top-up is phased out.

If England, Scotland and the rest retain any ambition to have a say in the world, culturally and commercially if to a diminishing extent militarily, Britain is their beautifully appointed tool.

For the H2O component itself, the diminishing extent of hydrogen bonding with temperature is the only structure observable.

By the time of the death of Mahmud II in 1839, the Ottoman Empire was diminished in extent; it was more consolidated and powerful than it had been at its height but was increasingly subject to European pressures, with Russia supporting and Britain opposing separatist movements and the other powers oscillating between.

Our results focus on ecosystems that are (a) still widespread but altered in structure and species composition (northern hardwoods communities) or (b) greatly diminished in extent (pine barrens communities).

The addition of a polar plasticizer, e.g., glycerol, preferentially solvated the ionic associations and diminished the extent of the rubbery plateau of the ionomer and substantially decreased the terminal relaxation time.