The phrase "a minimal dose of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small amount of something, often in contexts related to medicine, substances, or experiences.
Example: "The doctor recommended a minimal dose of the medication to start with, to see how the patient responds."
Alternatives: "a small amount of" or "a slight dose of".
Recent research has shown that a minimal dose of chlorhexidine (0.06%) has no beneficial effect on the oral health of aligner wearers [9], who must keep their appliances in place for 22 h per day in order to ensure good orthodontic outcomes (though it should be mentioned that many patients also keep their aligners on while eating and drinking).
However, extinction was achieved with a sequential treatment, first with ribavirin, and then with a minimal dose of 5-fluorouracil in combination with guanidine hydrochloride.
Hereto a minimal dose of LPS was i.v. injected 30 minutes prior to the injection of TNP-OVA and the animals were subjected to the same protocol as for TNP-OVA only.
Moreover, a minimal dose of white blood cells from the BM of hpa-tg mice, but not wt mice, was sufficient to rescue lethality irradiated C57BL/6 recipient mice, indicating that a higher number of hematopoietic repopulating cells exists in the BM of the hpa-tg mice [31].
A minimal dose of 500 UI/h was required to assure circuit patency.
To be considered someone who had at least a minimal dose of therapy, patients had to have attended at least two sessions.
The RO5126766 at the concentration of 0.3 μM was a minimal dose demonstrated reduction of ERK/MEK phosphorylation to undetectable levels in HCT116 (K-ras) cells after 2 hours of the treatment start [24].
We decided to try it out the adult way and started out with a minimal dose -- a quarter of a trip on a Sunday afternoon.
We found that a rather minimal dose of cowhage, approximately 45 spicules, equivalent to 45 µg of material (maximally containing about 90 ng of mucunain) induced a more intense itch sensation compared to histamine, at a dose of 6 mg histamine (base) that was contained in the chamber of the drug delivery electrode.
Gamma irradiation is commonly used to disinfect bone grafts whereas a standard minimal dose of 25 kGy is recommended by the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA [ 40].
The results of this study indicate that incobotulinumtoxinA, at the minimal dose of 21 U, has a faster onset of effect than either onabotulinumtoxinA (21 U) or abobotulinumtoxinA (63 U) for treatment of glabellar frown lines.
