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Wed 23 Nov, 2011 09:55 am
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They gave measured doses of LGG to mice, directly delivering the live bacteria to the stomach. They found it protected only mice that could make COX-2. In mutant mice unable to manufacture COX-2, the radiation destroyed epithelial cells in the intestine, just as it did in mice that didn't receive the probiotic.
A measured dose is one of a predetermined size.
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
A measured dose is one of a predetermined size.
Well. If the standard dose is 3 pills a day, now doctor decided the patient should take 5 pills a day. Can we call the dose as the doctor's measured dose?
@oristarA,
Yes. In either case, the dose is not a random amount.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote: Well. If the standard dose is 3 pills a day, now doctor decided the patient should take 5 pills a day. Can we call the dose as the doctor's measured dose?
You aren't getting it. There is not a "standard dose" of LGG to give to mice. You do understand that it was an experiment? Measured means "not random" or in this case probably "not guessed".
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
oristarA wrote: Well. If the standard dose is 3 pills a day, now doctor decided the patient should take 5 pills a day. Can we call the dose as the doctor's measured dose?
You aren't getting it. There is not a "standard dose" of LGG to give to mice. You do understand that it was an experiment? Measured means "not random" or in this case probably "not guessed".
Of course I knew it was an experiment., and I knew "measured" didn't mean "standard." Deliberately putting it as "measured = standard" is a way to ask questions, which makes things easier.
From what understood from you:
Measured = predetermined?
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
From what understood from you:
Measured = predetermined?
Each mouse got a dose which had been measured - e.g. with a pipette, or weighed, the point is that it was determined to some level of accuracy.
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