Sentence examples for faintly negative from inspiring English sources

A few years ago the term yo-yo club, or division one-and-a-half team, used to carry faintly negative connotations.

These markers, up-regulated in microarrays of both HFK and stem-like WT xenografts, were found to be ubiquitously expressed in differentiated renal tubular epithelial cells in sections of HFK while only faintly positive or negative in progenitor structures of the nephrogenic zone and were therefore eliminated from FACS analysis (Fig. 5c d and e f, respectively).

Immunostaining of the tumors was graded as negative, faintly positive, moderately positive or strongly positive by a professional pathologist (O Tynninen) and one of the authors (M Puputti) using a consultation microscope (Nikon Eclipse E600, Nikon Instech Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan).

Tumor endothelial cell KIT expression was considered either negative, faintly positive when 1% to 10% of the intratumoral vessels were positive, markedly positive when 11% to 50% of the intratumoral vessels stained positively, and strongly positive when over 50% of the intratumoral vessels were positive.

Examination of smears originating from the positive blood cultures revealed bacteria that presented as pleomorphic, faintly staining, gram-negative coccobacilli.

Here, the acinar cells showed moderate CK1δ positivity whereas the ductal epithelium was CK1δ negative to faintly positive.

Interestingly CD34 negative or faintly stained host vessels at the tumor-host interface were seen to be co-opted by tumor cells.

The presence of blood in stools was assessed by the occult blood reagent method (Shih-Yung Medical, Taipei) and scored on a 0- to 4-point scale: 0: negative; 1: faintly blue; 2: moderately blue; 3: dark blue; and 4: fecal blood visible to the eye.

Right beneath was a mononuclear cell accumulation consisting of cd45- or cd3-positive lymphocytes and cd45/ cd3-negative f4/80 faintly positive macrophages; some of the macrophages contained singular mwcnt in their cytoplasm.

Samples whose vessels stained negative or only faintly positive were not included in the statistical analysis.

The organisms stained faintly with Giemsa and were negative by Grocott methenamine silver, periodic acid Schiff, and mucicarmine stains.