However, the combined therapy at the equitoxic doses of emodin and cDDP significantly increased the tumor responsiveness as compared to cDDP treatment alone by an analysis of the slope of the overall growth curves in repeated experiments (slope 2.7 ± 0.4 for the cotreatment versus 3.9 ± 0.6 for cDDP alone, P < 0.05).
The time course was similar for all experiments (slopes were −6.1±0.7 A.U./h for 5-FC and 2.0±0.4 A.U./h for 5-FU, based on linear regression; n=6).
Finally, the cell death rate (rcd; equation 5), was calculated directly from the experimental data by determining, for each experiment, the slope of the biomass curve as it declined and calculating an average value of the slope based on all experiments.
We found that in this experiment, the slope of the response curve was more negative in trials with interference from the secondary task, compared to the standard trials (Figure 4C).
In the lip experiment, the slope of the category boundary changed across time (significant main effect of time: F2,38 = 3.54, P < 0.05, Table 1, Fig. 3 A).
> In the hand experiment the slope of the category boundary did not change across time (no significant main effect of time, Table 1, Fig. 3 A).
For each experiment, fEPSP slopes were expressed as a percentage of average pretetanus baseline slope values.
In this study, behavior of supported slopes with geotextiles and geogrids were analyzed by performing experiments on slope models in the laboratory.
Here, our main objective is to highlight, by well-controlled experiments, the slope role in the absence of the conflicting contributions generated by other physical processes observed in previous studies under natural or laboratory conditions.
In this study we investigated the potential to use living plant roots in small scale experiments of slope failure that would use a geotechnical centrifuge to achieve soil stress states comparable to those in the field at homologous points.
