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The phrase "activity were measured using" is not correct in written English due to subject-verb agreement issues.
It can be used when discussing how a particular activity was assessed or evaluated, but it needs to be corrected to "activities were measured using" or "activity was measured using" depending on the intended meaning.
Example: "The effectiveness of the training program was evaluated, and the activity was measured using various performance metrics."
Alternatives: "activities were assessed using" or "activity was evaluated using".
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To determine any proteolytic differences between the transfected cell lines, urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) expression and activity were measured using quantitative real-time PCR and semi-quantitative zymography with subsequent densitometric analysis.
Heparanase-levels, HS-levels and heparanase activity were measured using ELISA (AMS Biotechnology, Oxon, United Kingdom).
Relative light units from HRP activity were measured using Supersignal West Pico Chemiluminescent substrate (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) by Spectramax L luminescence microplate reader (MDS Analytical Technologies, Concord, Canada).
Renilla luciferase activity were measured using a Luciferase Reporter Assay System (Promega, USA) and each experiment was repeated in three times.
Cells were then treated with medium or the TLR7 agonist R848 (1 ug/ml) for 20 hours and the relative amounts of luciferase activity were measured using a dual reporter kit according to manufacturer's instructions (Promega, Madison, WI).
48 hours after transfection firefly and renilla luciferase activity were measured using the Dual-Luciferase Reporter System (Promega) and a Berthold Mithras plate-reading luminometer, essentially as described above.
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Urokinase plasminogen activator activity was measured using zymography.
Reporter activity was measured using the BrighGlo kit (Promega).
Luciferase activity was measured using dual luciferase reporter assays.
Luciferase activity was measured using a Vector 2 Luminometer (PerkinElmer Life Sciences).
Surface activity was measured using a captive bubble surfactometer (CBS).
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