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I spoke to Dr. Daniel Shrager, a cutaneous pharmacology fellow at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, who did a six-month study of the patches.
Let us assume that the flowers differ only in their colour, that there are only two patches of flowers (one of blue, the other of red flowers), and that the density of flowers is the same in both patches.
Flanked with patches of forest leading up into the foothills of the Himalayas, the flat plain stretches right across to the Bay of Bengal 1,600 km (1,000 miles) away, but some areas are kept as nature reserves for the country’s wildlife, notably its tigers, leopards, and elephants.
The mice were sacrificed after 48 h and the inguinal, axillary, submandibular and mesenteric lymph nodes, the spleen and the Peyer's patches were isolated.
Fits of dose-response relations with the Hill equation (see Experimental Procedures) yielded values of n = 1.8 ± 0.06 and a K ½ = 614 ± 110 nM (mean of 5 patches).