Sentence examples for bioassay from inspiring English sources
noun
The analysis of the biological activity of a substance, with reference to a standard preparation, using a culture of living cells, or a living creature
But the French food safety agency, the AFSAA said in July that: "Considering the current state of knowledge the mouse bioassay should remain the decisive test".Oystermen are surely the last people to ask for objective advice on whether their shellfish are safe to eat: it is their living.
The oysters are tested by government scientists using the "test du souris", or the mouse bioassay test.
In addition, the isolation and purification of many mammalian hormones was made possible in large part by using other vertebrates as bioassay systems; that is, primitive animals have served as relatively simple, sensitive indicators of the amount of hormone activity in extracts prepared from mammalian endocrine glands.
"Evaluation of the embryonic preimplantation potential of human adult somatic cells via an embryo interspecies bioassay using bovine oocytes".
