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It involves administering large amounts of a deficient fatty acid and is based on experiments with CF-inflicted mice.
However, the rats were vitamin A-deficient, and it is not known whether the same effects would be seen in vitamin A-replete animals such as were used in the present study.
While these comparisons provide some insight about the implications of our analysis, any risk-based calculation is deficient without careful quantitative consideration of the uncertainties inherent in the estimates.
Mean hematocrit levels (figure 2bottom) of iron deficient animals were significantly less than controls after 1 month (*, p < 0.0001), but not 1 week (p = 0.3102), of the respective diets.
No actin structures were seen in association with these bacteria, implying that they were indeed deficient in virulence gene expression and failed to escape from the endosomes (Figure 1d).