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L-arginine hydrochloride (Pharmalab, Sydney, Australia) was diluted in 100 ml normal saline (or sufficient to provide a concentration ≤10% w/v) and administered intravenously by an infusion pump over 30 minutes at doses of 3 g, 6 g and 12 g.
The zymosan particles, obtained from yeast cell walls, were suspended in PBS providing a concentration of 3 mg/mL.
Briefly, pyrene was dissolved in acetone and added to 5 mL volumetric flasks to provide a concentration of 6 × 10−7 M in the final solutions.
We added an additional low-exposure group [5 mg Cr VI /L] to the 2-year studies to provide a concentration closer to human exposure through contaminated drinking water.
As the uptake of most drugs from mucosal membranes is controlled by a passive diffusion process, it is essential to provide a concentration gradient as steep as possible on the mucosa.
A scheme of the experiments and the hypotheses that they were designed to address are shown in Table 2. Uterotrophic assays were conducted using IF at different concentrations selected to provide a concentration-dependent response (experiments 1 and 2).
Increasing chitosan concentration and decreasing genipin concentration provides a higher concentration of free amine groups on the chitosan backbone and would likely lead to increased alginate/chitosan polyelectrolyte complex formation, compared to hydrogels fabricated with smaller chitosan or higher genipin concentrations.
In this paper, the design of a ray-leakage-free discal solar concentrator is proposed which provides a high concentration ratio while acquiring a high optical efficiency.
