Rats were divided into the following groups: venom, comprising rats receiving 3.8 mg of venom/kg BW (ip); dexamethasone + venom, comprising rats receiving 2.0 mg/kg BW (ip) of dexamethasone [26], 60 min before receiving venom (as above); and control, comprising rats receiving 0.5 ml of saline (ip).
Its spatial scale includes three arms of interventions and control, comprising a total of 127 villages and the district capital Nouna in the extended HDSS of the Kossi province (21).
Its spatial scale includes three arms of interventions and control, comprising a total of 127 villages and the district capital Nouna in the extended HDSS (Health Demographic Surveillance System) of the Kossi province.
The mean age of patients and controls was 36 years, each group of patients and controls comprised 22 men (57.9%) and 16 women (42.1%).
Finally, population stratification, another widely claimed cause of spurious association results, is not a significant concern in this study as all cases and controls comprised a very homogenous population.
The negative control (Control) comprised cells that did not receive UVB exposure and the positive control (UVB) comprised cells that received UVB exposure in the absence of an antioxidant compound (Ho et al. 2005; Watanabe et al. 2004).
At this time, zoonotic disease control comprises prevention and public education and not much more.
The control comprises the bulk of the application.
Two controls were used for this test: a negative control (blank) consisting of MeOH (4 mL) and the DPPH radical solution (0.5 mL) and a positive control comprising the reference anti-oxidant (quercetin or BHT) in MeOH and DPPH radical solution.
Scent plots were randomly allocated to one of three treatments (n = 10 per treatment): the scents of two mice, the scents of six mice, and a procedural control, comprising 1 L of clean sand, to control for the addition of sand (hereafter 'clean sand').
