Sentence examples for measure of viability from inspiring English sources
PrestoBlue™ reagent is quickly reduced by metabolically active cells, providing a quantitative measure of viability and cytotoxicity.
The reduction of XTT can only occur in metabolically active cells; the level of activity is a measure of viability of cells.
Unfortunately, Harmon-Jones [ 29] reported only averaged data and did not include a measure of viability.
The described method provides researchers with a simple, nontoxic, relatively inexpensive, high throughput measure of viability after drug treatment.
Moreover, we also observe cell division after uncaging, which is a measure of viability after UV photolysis (Video 9).
Cell membrane integrity was evaluated as a measure of viability using YO-PRO-1 DNA stain (Invitrogen) that labels apoptotic cells.
Yet most research that monitors populations at risk of decline or extinction has focused on behavioral and demographic measures of viability, without integrating human activity patterns.
We hypothesised that by combining tests indicating cell death (cfDNA) with other measures of viability (DTC and CTC detection), we could determine the relationship between the two processes.
The increased sub-G1 fraction is indicative of increased apoptosis when MBD4-depleted HeLa cells are subjected to oxidative stress, and we confirmed this by two independent measures of viability (Fig. S3A and B).
In the clinical development of [I]SIB annexin V for cancer therapy monitoring, additional measures of viability, for example, the exchanging H2O space in tissues by PET (Wilson et al, 1992) or T2 relaxation maps by MRI (Heywang et al, 1987), may be required to differentiate between apoptosis and necrosis.
Although this is generally a good measure of cell viability, artifacts can arise if mitochondrial activity changes without parallel changes in viability.
