In all the years of our collaboration, Theo had never once displayed the slightest susceptibility to humor, indicating that he must long have been laying the groundwork for his mischief.
Figure 4A shows that although egr3 mutant show a slight increased susceptibility to this challenge compared to wild-type flies, however this was not as pronounced as spz and PGRP-SA mutants.
Lastly, Zhao et al. (2008) revealed that mice lacking Atg5 in macrophages and neutrophils had a slight increase in susceptibility to L. monocytogenes as measured by bacterial levels in spleen and liver three days after infection.
Furthermore, the presence of macrophages secreting reactive nitrite intermediates such as nitric oxide can be readily imagined to contribute to the slight increase in susceptibility to infection; nitric oxide is known to contribute to the pathology seen in infection through its damaging action on cell membranes [26].
A slight variation of susceptibility of H2 q strains (B10.Q> C3H.Q> DBA/1) was observed and the (B10.Q × DBA/1 F1 was the most susceptible of all strains.
At lower temperatures, a slight decrease in susceptibility is observed, dropping to 3.15 emu K mol 1 (μ eff = 5.0) at 15 K, with a more drastic decrease in the χ M T value at 5 K.
RGT variety bears fully russeted fruits and is locally grown in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, while the widely grown GD shows slight to moderate susceptibility to russeting depending on environmental conditions.
The PiMZ heterozygous state has long been studied as a potential risk factor and a meta-analysis does suggest a slight increase in susceptibility [ 17], with the heterozygous state being associated with more hospitalisations [ 18] and a more severe form of COPD [ 19, 20].
The same was observed after infection with P. carotovorum, max2 plants demonstrated slight increase in the susceptibility in comparison to wild-type (Additional file 1: Figure S3).
In the case of pmt1Δ, a slight complementation of the susceptibility phenotype was achieved with the expression of the corresponding genomic library plasmid.
