All blood samples were centrifuged within 10 min and plasma was separated, divided into two duplicate aliquots, and frozen until the time of assay.
The samples were divided into two duplicate, one was steamed for 5 min, dried at 80°C and ground into powder for chemical assay, and the other one was stored at −80°C after flash-freezing with liquid nitrogen for microarray analysis.
After washing in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), cell pellets were divided into two portions for duplicate experiments.
Each of the two urine samples that were both collected on day 1 of recruitment were divided into two aliquots for duplicate analysis.
Every six mice were divided into one group and as duplicate.
Every six mice were divided into one group and as duplicate, bars represent the standard error of the mean.
Every six mice were divided into a group and as duplicate, bars represent the standard error of the mean.
Every six mice were divided into a group and as duplicate, bars represent the standard error of the mean; c Effects of NZ2114 on the bacterial loads in lung after 24 h post-treatment.
To distinguish ingested and plasma membrane-bound substrates, samples were divided into two groups, each in duplicate wells.
Duplicate pairs were divided into two classes: symmetric versus asymmetric rates of expression divergence.
