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- noun A
milligram ofmedication perkilogram of thebody weight of the persontaking the medication.
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Examples
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In this study, the authors write: It is worthwhile noting that the lower dose of methoxychlor tested (3 mg/pellet, or approximately 1.2 mg/kg/day) is 4-fold lower than the NOEL used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in developing an oral reference dose for methoxychlor.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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In this study, the authors write: It is worthwhile noting that the lower dose of methoxychlor tested (3 mg/pellet, or approximately 1.2 mg/kg/day) is 4-fold lower than the NOEL used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in developing an oral reference dose for methoxychlor.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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The low dose was 10 mg/kg/day which is 7 times the exposure that humans would encounter at the proposed human dose.
unknown title 2011
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