The phrase "a degree of background" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the extent or level of knowledge, experience, or context someone has in a particular area.
Example: "To fully understand the complexities of the project, it is essential to have a degree of background in environmental science."
Alternatives: "a level of knowledge" or "an extent of experience."
Whereas, strong staining in positive K562 cells and an absence of staining in the negative MDAMB231 cells was evident in the MCT1 assay, a degree of background staining particularly in the negative K562 cells was observed with the MCT4 assay.
Threshold regulation can be implemented as a mechanism that provides a degree of background activity to excitatory neurons in a given area; the regulatory input is calculated as a function of previous activity of the same network part.
The fluorescence detector is oriented at 90° to the incident beam in the horizontal plane, at which angle the X-ray scatter is minimized, allowing a degree of background suppression while minimizing detector saturation.
It is important to recognise that most lungs donated for research have been declined for transplant: baseline physiology is often abnormal and there will inevitably be a degree of background ALI present prior to use of the tissue for experimental modelling.
A formal recommendation to the board was supported by a 100-page dossier with a great degree of background information.
In a study by Hayden using ISH on FFPE tissue samples, the interpretation of ISH results was most difficult in mucormycosis due to a weak hybridisation signal compared with a high degree of background signal [ 7].
The antibody JH455 which labels S-cones resulted in a certain degree of background staining which allowed us to detect unlabeled structures such as cone oil droplets or outer segments.
Although a higher degree of background growth inhibition was observed using sera from malaria-experienced adults, immunization with 50 µg of FMP2.1/AS02A induced measurably higher inhibitory antibodies against both homologous and heterologous parasite strains than did the 25 µg FMP2.1/AS02A dose.
Both populations present some peculiarities that may explain the existence of a higher degree of background linkage disequilibrium (see Discussion).
Presumably, a high degree of background matching in one background often comes with the cost of low degree of matching in other, visually different backgrounds [ 34].
Here, an antibody concentration of 8 μL/100 μL produced the greatest fold-increase in MCT4 fluorescence whilst maintaining a low degree of background fluorescence.
