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Treatment concentration

In brief

An experiment's protocol can specify that ANY-maze should calculate the treatment dose for the animals in the experiment. This yields the mass of the treatment to be administered to each animal. However, in many cases you will administer the treatment as a solution and you can therefore set up the protocol so that ANY-maze will calculate the volume of the treatment that should be administered (such that the animal will receive the correct treatment mass). To work out the volume, ANY-maze needs to know the concentration of the treatment solution.

If the protocol is set up to calculate treatment volumes, then the Treatment groups spreadsheet will include a Concentration column - how you should use this column is described in the details section below

Details

The protocol actually allows you to specify the concentration in three ways:

The volume administered should be approximately the same for all treatment groups

In this case ANY-maze will calculate the concentration for the different treatment groups and will report it in the concentration column. You should use this information to prepare appropriate solutions for each treatment.

The concentration will be different for each treatment group

In this case you should enter the treatment's concentration, in milligrams per litre, for each treatment group. In the case of a control group you should enter a concentration of 0.

The concentration will be the same for all treatment groups

In this case there won't actually be a concentration column in the Treatment groups spreadsheet, as the concentration will already have been specified in the protocol.

Limits

When specifying a concentration you can enter any number from 0 to 99,999.99

See also

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