bioassay
bioassay
Definition
☆ bio·as·say (bī′ō as′ā)
bioassay
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: Practical science skills, including bioassay, natural product screening and bioinformatics methodology, are taught to prepare you for the practical research project.
- conduct: Client Challenge The client conducted a technically complex animal bioassay in-house for a marketed product that was resource-intensive.
Adjective modifier
- long-term: The Committee made the following comments on each of the long-term bioassays.
- animal: The different types of models developed to derive risk estimates from animal bioassays were considered to vary greatly in their predictions.
- long: At present there are no short-term tests that can be used to identify such compounds and long term bioassays in animals are necessary.
- neonatal: Neonatal mouse bioassay for tumourigenicity: Alternative to the chronic rodent bioassay.
- dietary: Members agreed that technical grade malathion had been tested in four long-term dietary bioassays in rats and two long-term dietary bioassays in mice.
Modifies a noun
- datum: Comet assay results were given for 8 organs in the mouse with 208 chemicals for which carcinogenicity bioassay data were available.
- system: The bioassay systems have also been used in the search for novel activities in extracts of inflamed tissues.
- method: A range of bioassay methods are now available to assess resistance.
Noun used with modifier
- carcinogenicity: Comet assay results were given for 8 organs in the mouse with 208 chemicals for which carcinogenicity bioassay data were available.
- rodent: Neonatal mouse bioassay for tumourigenicity: Alternative to the chronic rodent bioassay.
- mouse: The mouse bioassay involves inoculating mice with suspect tissue from a cow or sheep.
- rat: The Committee agreed that there were very limited validation data on the neonatal mouse bioassay and even fewer data regarding the neonatal rat bioassay.
- term: Long term animal carcinogenicity bioassays are currently in progress.
- inhalation: The Committee agreed that the negative rat inhalation carcinogenicity bioassay provided additional reassurance with regard to possible site of contact mutagenicity.
Preposition: in
- rat: It had also been noted that wheezing had been reported as a possible sign of toxicity in one of the earlier bioassay in rats.
- mouse: Members agreed that technical grade malathion had been tested in four long-term dietary bioassays in rats and two long-term dietary bioassays in mice.
- animal: At present there are no short-term tests that can be used to identify such compounds and long term bioassays in animals are necessary.
Preposition: of
- tissue: The bioassays of other tissues from sCJD patients were inconclusive.
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