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Animal Experiment Dose Converter
Equivalent dose conversion in different experimental animals(Data from FDA guidelines)
  Mice Rats Rabbit Guinea pigs Hamster Dog
Weight (kg) 0.02 0.15 1.8 0.4 0.08 10
Body surface area (m2) 0.007 0.025 0.15 0.05 0.02 0.5
KmCoefficient 3 6 12 8 5 20
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Conversion method based on body surface area, for example, to use adriamycin rat dose of 10 mg/kg dose conversion into mice, need to be 10 mg/kg Km multiplied by the coefficient of rats (6), divided by coefficient of Km mice (3), get the equivalent dose of adriamycin for mice to 20 mg/kg.