Sentence examples for measure of worm from inspiring English sources

The multidimensional measure of worm behavior allowed us to better characterize the effect of genetic manipulations on the escape response.

ATP measurements were carried out to determine the energy status of worms in resistant and susceptible mice as a measure of worm vitality.

Since the analysis for this present study is based on an indirect measure of worm burden, epg, it is difficult to compare these results.

Three different assays were used to assess worm viability (motility scoring, MTT assay and a novel camera-based method) and their utility as a measure of worm health was compared.

Getting a true measure of worm burden by expelling the worms from the gut is very difficult, time-consuming work and is not feasible for such large-scale studies [ 25].

To extract the behavior of the worm during the recording, first a more accurate measure of worm position was obtained based on not only the stage position, but also the location, within the field of view, of a successfully tracked neuron, effectively calculating the position, in stage coordinates, of the centroid of the ROI.

The teeth of the worm can be checked by using a special checking device made for the checking of hobs, by using a universal device for the complex checking of worm gear drives, or by using universal measuring instruments or devices providing measurement of worm thread lines.

CFAs are primarily released by adult W. bancrofti, and their presence is a sensitive and specific indirect measure of adult worm infection [ 16].

Thermotolerance was determined by measuring survival of worms exposed to lethal thermal stress (37 °C) using SYTOX® Green (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and an automated single worm fluorescence progression determination on 384-well plates as previously described (Kampkötter et al., 2007).

Although the lethality assay is a widely used method in analyzing the host response of C. elegans to microorganisms, it measures the longevity of worm populations only in the adult stage.

Here, we adapt the parallel worm tracker to determine worm speed and to derive a measure of the fraction of worms that are paralyzed by drug application.