The therapeutic results indicate that a larger sham-controlled trial using the same tDCS protocol is worthwhile.
Therefore, the aim of this pilot study is to investigate the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture on insulin sensitivity in women with PCOS and IR when acupuncture is given over a longer period of time (6 months) than in the previous pilot trial using the same treatment protocol.
Those women in the control group were divided into groups and offered the same intervention protocol as in the trial, using the same facilitators and locale.
The study, JMTO LC00-03, was begun in April 2001, in collaboration with SWOG 0003 trial (carboplatin/paclitaxel±tirapazamine), using the same protocol for common control arm (carboplatin/paclitaxel).
The SCPT score was calculated according to the formula published by Bean et al. 23 This study was a single-blind randomized clinical trial with follow-up using the same protocol as reported previously.
After a further 25 generations of experimental evolution (generation 120 in total) all populations were cultured with standard protocol for a single generation to remove parental effects, then an assay of female fecundity from all replicate populations and treatments was performed (trial 5; n = 53-64 individual females per population), using the same protocol employed for trial 1 (see above).
Also, given that in our previous study we were able to detect differences in tadpole survival time using the same protocol for predation trials as the present study, we think that the predation trials used in the present study were an adequate tool by which to evaluate the effect of fluctuation regime on tadpole survival time.
Below-ground attributes were measured using the same protocol used in trial 1, including soil width and depth increments of 0 < 0.5, 0.5 < 1.0, and ≥1.0 m.
The following day, cells were superinfected using the same protocol.
They were tested twice, using the same protocol.
To address run-to-run variability, slides were stained and analyzed on the same day using the same protocol.
