To avoid the artefact provided by the strong fluorescent signals observed in the presence of ligands capable of forming micelles, such as long-chain fatty acids, we used 0.2-0.6 0.2-0.6entrations of each competitor.
All the trees within the selected area were counted and measured at circumference at 200 cm (C200) above the ground to avoid the tapping artefacts.
To avoid the experimental artefacts with regard to cellular changes induced by the stable infection of the lentiviral constructs, we further purchased commercial miR-19a/b precursors and inhibitors from Applied Biosystems (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA).
Milk phospholipids were stained with N- lissamine rhodamiN- lissaminel) dioleoylphosphatidyl ethanolamine (rhodamine-DOPE, Avanti Polar Lipids Inc., Birmingham, UK) provided at a concentration of 1 mg.mL-1 in chloroform (chloroform wasulfonylatedioleoylphosphatidylavoid thethanolaminertefacts caused by this organic solvent).
All employed constraints were fixed, to avoid the method artefact of "model overfitting", meaning that constraints closer to the leaves can lead to overestimation of deeper nodes.
The stimulation artefacts were deleted from the ERP, to avoid the influences of artefacts on parameter estimation (See Supplementary Fig. 3).
To avoid the inclusion of artefacts, only fluorescent signals with areas greater than 16 μm2 were counted.
Each step of the normalization procedure was carefully monitored to avoid the generation of artefacts and overcycling.
To avoid the massive ultramicrotomy artefacts especially around 'hot-spot' regions which obscure actual cell-CNT interactions, the ion beam of the FIB-SEM can be used to mill through the CNT rich sample.
