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As the sea otter population was depleted, the maritime fur trade diversified and transformed, tapping new markets and commodities, while continuing to focus on the Northwest Coast and China.

Jane Smart, the global director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group, told the Washington Post this number did not reflect the true severity of the practice, and that the global lion population was depleted by two percent each year due to legal hunting.

To test this hypothesis, NK cell population was depleted in mice by intraperitoneal injection of anti-GM1 antibody, and its effect on tumor growth during the rAAV-/rAdv-hTERTC27 treatment was investigated.

When the CD4+ population had been depleted the ability to proliferate in response to the peptides was reduced to background levels, but when the CD8+ population was depleted there was no drop in proliferation [22].

When the CD11b+ macrophage population was depleted after tumor cell seeding had occurred (treated 2 and 4 day after tumor cell i.v. injection) only the persistent growth of metastatic tumor cells was reduced (Figure 4D, 3rd histogram), consistent with the effects of macrophage depletion using L-Clodronate described above.

No other cell population was depleted by this treatment.

After the sensitive cell population is depleted, no further resistant mutants can be produced, so the surviving escape mutants comprise the rebound tumor population.

A relevant characteristic of the considered process is the time at which the initial cell population is depleted, i.e. when nearly all cells have undergone the transformation.

- During active inflammation the goblet cell population is depleted, and individual goblet cells contain less mucin than those of healthy controls.

Over time, without regeneration, the oocyte population is depleted in women until less than a thousand remain and menopause ensues (2– 4).

CBNRM is also difficult to implement when human densities are high, wildlife populations are depleted, and benefits are low.