Sentence examples for counting of plaque from inspiring English sources

Therefore, an assay of infectious centers (IC) on mosquito cells was chosen instead of a traditional mammalian cell plaque assay because this assay is more sensitive and facilitates direct counting of plaque areas produced by DV2 mutants that are not detected by a typical plaque assay.

The depression of the immunological status of BALB/c mice treated during infancy with two different doses of urethane, alone or combined with cortisone, was evaluated by counting the number of plaque forming cells at 30 or 50 days of age.

After 3 4 days of incubation, the cells were washed with PBS, and stained with 1% of naphthalene blue, followed by visual counting of plaques.

Infection was scored by counting the number of plaques per well, using the number of plaques on the control well (no antibody) as 100% infection.

The secondary outcome was plaque score, 16 which was determined by counting the number of plaques.

The titer was estimated by counting the number of plaques observed in each well and expressed as plaque-formation unit per milliliter (PFU/mL).

The count of plaque bacteria could also be affected by a number of caries-related factors other than the actual caries experience such as the location/depth (enamel versus dentine), stage (incipient versus cavitated), level (acute, chronic or arrested), and activity of the carious lesion (active versus inactive).

Without knowing the patient's dementia score, he counted the number of plaques in several fields and calculated a mean plaque count for each brain (Tomlinson interview, 1992).

To test for differences among germination rates, we plated each strain on six replica plates at a very low density of 50 spores per plate and counted the number of plaques formed after two days.

These findings were confirmed by ex-vivo gamma well counting of harvested fragments of aorta with the most conspicuous plaques (Figure 4B).

Plaques were counted to determine the number of plaque forming units (pfu) per mL of harvested supernatant.