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. 2014 Mar 26;13:115. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-115

Table 1.

Summary of cue treatment groups, sample sizes, rationales, and classifications

Cue treatment
N
Rationale
Classification
      Treatment Lysed parasites Lysed RBC
Control
5
No-treatment control for the stress of handling and injections
C
NP
NL
Uninfected RBC
5
Control for the stress of handling and injecting the host with blood
U
NP
NL
Uninfected lysed RBC
10
To test for a response to RBC debris
UL
NP
L
AJ-infected lysed RBC
10
Compare AJ to UL to test for a response to high density of self
AJ
P
L
ER-infected lysed RBC 10 Compare ER to AJ to test for a response to non-self ER P L

The analysis involved comparing individual cue treatments and comparing treatments grouped in different ways to test whether parasites respond to lysed parasite material (P vs NP) and/or to lysed RBC material (L vs NL) . N = number of mice that received a particular treatment.