One has also to be mindful that the identity or high similarity of DNA fingerprints from two individuals, obtained by using even the most discriminating techniques, may not always mean a recently transmitted infection.
Classical histology has been augmented by a variety of more discriminating techniques.
The Japanese prohibit drift nets in their own waters; indeed, purse nets, long lines and other more discriminating techniques are viable alternatives.
Although their electrical pulses can be easily recorded by non-invasive techniques, discriminating the emitter of each pulse is challenging when physically similar fish are allowed to freely move and interact.
On the other hand, other recent MALDI-TOF-based studies that avoided bias-contributing factors and employed a one-step sera processing technique identified discriminating biomarker signatures for different cancers including prostate cancer [11].
These differences corroborate conformation discriminating power of the technique.
Data were analysed using an ANOVA test and the Tukey test was used as a complementary technique for discriminating the mean different from the others.
DSCI has been suggested as a useful technique in discriminating the two tumor groups, based on differences in the underlying pathophysiology of their peritumoral area [ 1, 10, 11, 62, 92- 94] (Table 1).
Two techniques for discriminating against gamma background are described and quantified.
The widely used method for apoptosis detection involves analysis of Annexin-V binding on cell membrane, DNA fragmentation, mitochondrial membrane potential loss, mitochondrial permeabilization, Bax activation and caspase activation analysis using fluorogenic substrates.7,8 Most of these assays are highly powerful techniques for discriminating apoptotic cells from live cells.
