Sentence examples for amount of the specimen from inspiring English sources

Mutational analysis for one patient was unsuccessful because the amount of the specimen was insufficient.

Resolution in X-ray tomography is largely a function of the outermost ring of the zone plate used to focus the X-rays with the caveat that the use of high-resolution zone plates reduces the amount of the specimen kept in focus: for example, a 40 nm outer ring corresponds to a 1.3 μm depth of focus, and 25 nm zone plates are now being introduced.

However, in each case where 5 μl of crude clinical sample was analyzed, the internal controls either failed to amplify efficiently, or did not amplify at all indicating that the fundamental chemistry of PCR was negatively affected by something in the crude specimen, but that a significant amount of the crude specimen was required to be added to the reaction for such a negative impact to occur.

Specimen labels usually do not include details such as which killing agent was used, and other aspects surrounding post-mortem conditions including the amount of time the specimen was exposed to the killing agent.

The standard protocol was altered by extending the amount of time the specimen was in the proteinase K solution to 2 days in order to allow enzymes to penetrate the cuticle without grinding the specimen.

In cases with only a single Matrix Block containing only a small amount of tumor, the specimen may not be available for distribution, owing to the need to preserve the diagnostic tissue in the Surgical Pathology files.

Another disadvantage is that ultraviolet detection is relatively insensitive and the system therefore requires a considerable amount of the biological specimen to allow detection of all activity peaks.

Unfortunately, our DNA extraction method did not allow for reproducible quantitative detection of other Lactobacillus spp., and the amount of the original specimen did not allow for a repeated extraction.

The size of indentation is the measure of amount of hardness of the specimen.

Technical constraints such as the limited amount of clinical specimens, the use of different screening methods, and the need to sequence an unknown target of extreme variability might have limited the representativeness of our sequence collection.

The PCR, like any method based on direct detection of the parasite, does have a shortcoming: the amount of specimen processed determines the limit of detection.