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Animal treatment dosage shown on the Test schedule report

The Dose column

If the experiment's protocol specifies that ANY-maze should calculate the animal's treatment doses then the Test schedule report will include a column for Dose  - see figure 8.

Figure 8. In this experiment the protocol specifies that ANY-maze should calculate the treatment dosage for each animal - this is reported in the Dose column of the Test schedule report.

For ANY-maze to calculate the dose for an animal, the animal must first be weighed, so until you weigh an animal the dose column will be blank. Once the animal has been weighed, the dose column will report the dose that the animal should be given - this is based on the dose information entered for the treatment groups, and the animal's weight. For example, if the treatment specifies that the animal should be given a dosage of 1.0mg/kg, and the animal weighs 200g, then the dose will be shown as 0.2mg (see animal 1, in figure 8).

Dose as a volume

One of the options when setting up treatment doses in the protocol, is for ANY-maze to calculate the dose as a volume (usually the volume to inject) rather than as a mass. In this case the Dose column of the Test schedule report will show the volume to administer (in millilitres), rather than the mass - see figure 9. This is calculated based on the information specified in the protocol, the dose and concentration specified when the treatment was entered, and the animal's weigh.

Figure 9. In this experiment the protocol specifies that ANY-maze should calculate the treatment dosage for each animal and report it as the volume to administer. In this example, the option to 'administer approximately the same volume for all animals' was chosen, which is why the dose is similar for the different treatment groups.

If an animal's dose is shown as Treatment: No dose it means that no dose information has been entered in the Treatment groups spreadsheet for the relevant animal's treatment group.

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