1.   Interdigestive motor complexes are absent, postprandial antral motor activity is decreased, gastric emptying of radioopaque is delayed, and gall gladder contraction is reduced.

2.   This lack of oxygen decreases the activity of micro-organisms which break down detergents.

3.   But what really excited them was that deeper areas of the brain, such as the amygdala, which regulates emotions, decreased their activity during acupuncture.

4.   For example, clinically depressed patients have decreased metabolic activity in the left frontal lobe and amygdala, two regions involved in planning and emotions.

5.   If the amount of sugar was the same, as predicted, the neuron would not increase or decrease its activity.

6.   On Wall Street, stocks stalled, held back by a fresh round of earnings warnings and decreased trading activity ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.