bioassay


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Synonyms for bioassay

appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard

subject to a bio-assay

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The data were analyzed by a completely randomized design using factorial arrangements of treatments, time interval and type of bioassay for insecticides and additionally concentration in essential oils.
The first bioassay was conducted for 10 d with 10 shrimp (528 [+ or -] 31.7 mg) per glass aquarium with 4 L of seawater under constant aeration.
In this work, a large dataset consisting of compounds with broad acute oral toxicity values was profiled by their PubChem in vitro bioassay data to generate bioprofiles.
Note that the singleplex qRT-PCR is mainly developed to confirm samples that were positive in the neuro-2a bioassay but negative in the LC-MS/MS.
In addition, Regeron has been developing bioassays and commercial production of the following GFs for years.
The objective of this study is to design a bioassay methodology with the Potter tower to determine the susceptibility of adult mosquitoes to commercial formulations, and botanical and entomopathogenic insecticides.
Solvent controls were run in all experiments; the final concentration of methanol (3.7%) did not interfere with the viability of the cells in the short term or with the readout of the bioassay.
Chang, "Establishment of a consistent L929 bioassay system for TNF-[alpha] quantitation to evaluate the effect of lipopolysaccharide, phytomitogens and cytodifferentiation agents on cytotoxicity of TNF-[alpha] secreted by adherent human mononuclear cells," Mediators of Inflammation, vol.
The bioassay followed a modified "maximum challenge test" methodology, which is useful for separating virulent from non-virulent isolates at the early stages of entomopathogen screening programmes (10).
Keywords: Biphenyl analogues, brine shrimp lethal bioassay, etoposide, cytotoxic
Blood draws enabled testing of serum antioxidant protective capacity using the cellular antioxidant protection (CAP-e) bioassay. Additional in vitro testing involved testing of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and lipoxygenase inhibition, cellular antioxidant protection by the CAP-e bioassay, and formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by polymorphonuclear (PMN) cells by flow cytometry.
In the bioassay using immersion of eggs, the concentrations of 8.0%, 4.0%, 2.0% and 1.0% differed from the control resulting, respectively, in 98.0%, 82.7%, 74.3% and 16.7% of unviable eggs.
gambiae Kisumu laboratory strain (insecticide-susceptible) at the CNRFP bioassay laboratory for quality control.