For flow cytometric staining, 100 µl of venous blood was incubated for 20 minutes at room temperature with the optimised amounts of the following fluorescent-conjugated antibodies: anti-αβ-TCR-FITC (clone WT-31), anti-Vδ2-PE (clone B6), anti-CD3-PerCP (clone SK7), anti-CD8-PE-Cy7 (clone RPA-T8), anti-γδ-TCR-APC (clone B1), and anti-CD4-APC-Cy7 (clone RPA-T4).
The PCR master mix (Quantitect, purchased from Qiagen, 2004b) contained optimised amounts of SYBR® Green dye to which primers (5 pmol tube−1) and DNA template (5 μl) were added.
Six factors with a large impact on the MIP synthesis and its analytical performance have been optimised: the amount of template, the type and the percentage of functional and cross-linking monomers, the polymerisation method (i.e. thermal or UV initiation) and the porogenic solvent.
Thereafter, 70 g/L of synthesised MCT β-CD was applied on cotton at five pH levels (4, 6, 8, 10 and 12) through padding with 80%% expression followed by air drying, curing at 150 °C for 5 min, rinsing in cold water to remove any superficial MCT-β-CD, spraying of oils in optimised amounts and subsequent drying of treated cotton.
The results indicate that the optimised folded-flange section provides a bending capacity which is up to 57% higher than standard optimised shapes with the same amount of material.
The results indicate that for a standard 50-μl PCR product highly efficient capture is achieved already at approximately 100 μg of beads for all products up to 1.3 kb, but for a highly optimised amplification reaction a higher amount of beads may be necessary (data not shown).
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Those methods were different from the ones evaluated in this report, and were not optimised for picogram amounts of input RNA.
The amount of adsorbent was optimised to obtain the optimal removal.
For an optimised delayed enhancement acquisition, the optimal amount of contrast agent would be higher, e.g. within the range of 100-150 ml.
