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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Res. 2011 Apr 21;89(12):1979–1988. doi: 10.1002/jnr.22650

Table I.

Power analysis of replicates required for observing a 20% difference in bioenergetic parameters

OCR # slices for n=5a,b # slices for n=10a,c
basal >12 10
oligomycin >12 9
FCCP 12 6
normalized oligomycin (% basal) 4 3
normalized FCCP (% basal) 5 3
a

Numbers in columns indicate the number of slices (replicates) per mouse necessary to detect a 20% difference between two groups at a significance level of 0.05 with a power of at least 0.8.

b

Assumes n=5 mice for the two groups

c

Assumes n=10 mice for the two groups