In this manuscript, insulin resistance refers to decreased insulin sensitivity.
b Down arrow symbol refers to decreased percentage change, up arrow refers to increased percentage change.
The term 'endothelial dysfunction' refers to decreased endothelial-dependent vascular relaxation or NO release, and decreased expression or activity of endothelial constitutive NO synthase (ecNOS).
Early life growth restriction discussed here refers to decreased body weight compared to normal birth weight peers, which is commonly observed as a consequence of maternal undernutrition or conditions such as preeclampsia and other forms of placental dysfunction whereby sufficient nutrient supply fails to reach the fetus.
The scatter plots showing relationships between SF2 and gene expression of the 31 radiosensitivity signature genes in the four microarrays are in Additional files 2 3 4, and 5. "Down" refers to decreased expression observed in radiosensitive cells relative to radioresistant cells, determined as the slope of the correlation coefficient.
Attenuation of apoptosis resulting from glucose control per se[39 42] and/or metformin treatment [20, 21, 43, 44] is mainly referred to decreased oxidative stress associated with restoration of normoglycemia [7, 8].
Publication bias, as typically defined, refers to the decreased likelihood of studies' results being published when they are near the null, not statistically significant, or otherwise "less interesting".
Restrictive lung disease (RLD) refers to a decrease in total volume of the lungs due to impaired expansion from decreased lung elasticity.
A complete response (CR) is defined as the disappearance of tumour; partial response (PR) refers to a decrease in tumour size of 50% or more; no change (NC) indicates a decrease in tumour size of 50% or less or an increase of tumour size by less than 25%; and progressive disease (PD) indicates an increase in tumour size of 25% or more.
