The phrase "adhere prior" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express the idea of following or sticking to something that was mentioned earlier, but it lacks clarity and proper usage.
Example: "Please ensure that you adhere to the guidelines provided prior to the meeting."
Alternatives: "follow the previous" or "stick to the earlier".
The explants were allowed to adhere prior to the addition of media [Medium 199, 1% FBS, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 µg/ml streptomycin, and 0.1% each of insulin, transferrin, and selenium (GIBCO)] [23].
Colon cells were seeded at 5 × 105 onto 9 cm plates and allowed to adhere prior to treatment with I3C for 24 hours.
Cells were seeded at 1 × 104 onto 24 well plates in normal growth medium, and allowed to adhere, prior to treatment with I3C for times up to 10 days.
In vitro doses of ionizing radiation were 2, 5, and 10 Gy, and were given at a rate of 3.1 Gy/min with a Clinac 600C/D linear accelerator irradiator (Varian Medical Systems Inc., Palo Alto, CA) to cells plated for clonogenic growth and allowed to adhere prior to irradiation.
"This deadline," it said, "is appropriate in light of the commission's failure, after eight years, to develop lawful unbundling rules, and its apparent unwillingness to adhere to prior judicial rulings".
On day 15, EBs were harvested for RNA isolation or plated into gelatin-treated wells and allowed to adhere overnight prior to immunofluorescent analysis.
Cells were seeded (3 × 10/well) in 6-well plates and allowed to adhere overnight prior to incubation as described above and in figure legends.
fNPC 34 cells were plated at a density of 15 000 cells/well in 96-well tissue culture plates in 97% GIBCO DMEM-F12, 1% GIBCO Antibiotic-Antimycotic (Invitrogen), 2%B-27B-27rum-Free Supplement, and 20 μg/mL each of basic fibroblast growth factor (Roche Applied Science) and epidermal growth factor (Sigma) and allowed to adhere overnight prior to transfection.
Cells were seeded onto 6-well plates at a density of 1×10 per well and left to adhere for ~24h prior to treatment.
SMN2-luciferase, SMN1-luciferase, and SV40min-luciferase reporter cells (Cherry et al, 2012) were plated in D-MEM in the absence of hygromycin B and allowed to adhere 24 h prior to addition of compound at 37°C with 5% CO2.
Adhesins are primary virulence factors used by pathogens to adhere to host prior to invasion [ 26, 27] and only 10 peptide spots were found with adhesins motifs (Additional file 6: Table S2A, B).
