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Treatment doses

Introduction

In many experiments, animals are administered a treatment at a dosage that depends on their body weight. For example, you might give an animal 10mg of the treatment per kilogram of body weight.

As you may know, you can record your animals' weight in ANY-maze, so if ANY-maze knows the animals' weight, it means it can easily calculate its treatment dose for you - in my example where the dose is 10mg/Kg, a 200g animal would receive 2mg.

However, if you plan to inject your animal, then knowing that you want to administer 2mg of drug, while helpful, isn't the complete answer to how much the animal's dose should be, as that will depend on the concentration of the solution you'll be injecting. In my earlier example, if the solution is 500mg/litre then you'd need to inject 4ml. ANY-maze can perform this calculation too.

The Treatment doses page of the protocol is where you can specify whether you want ANY-maze to calculate dose information and if so, how you want it to do it.

What you need to do

Each of the steps below is a link, which you can click for more information.

By the way, you'll not be entering the actual treatment dose here (such as 10 mg/kg), rather what you're doing at this point is telling ANY-maze when, and how, you want the specific doses for the animals to be calculated. The dose for each treatment group is something you will specify when you enter the treatments on the Experiment page.

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