Sentence examples for measuring protein levels from inspiring English sources

Melamine can also be used to illegally inflate the nutrition value of foods by fooling testers measuring protein levels.

Makers of baby formula, for example, watered down their product, lowering the amount of protein and nutrients, then added melamine, which is cheap and fools tests measuring protein levels.

Peshkin then repeated this experiment, this time measuring protein levels only at the moment of fertilization and excluding the protein quantities throughout development.

While we could not distinguish between different MUP isoforms measuring protein levels via Western blot, we found reduced MUP in mice that fed 60% of a high fat diet compared to the AL-control.

Proteolytic activity of both calpain system and key enzymes of the UPP were analyzed by measuring protein levels of calpain1, calpain2, and the muscle-specific E3 ligases MAFbx and MuRF1 [7, 17].

The same limitation applies to measuring protein levels of UPR markers in protein lysates.

The ability to measure protein levels in single cells has become increasingly important in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers, to identify specific molecular markers.

We measured protein levels of the enzymatic component of the polycomb repressive complex 2, EZH2, but found no differences in the content of EZH2 in muscle from physically active and inactive men (data not shown).

We measured protein levels of IGF-1 and KGF in whole-lung lysate and found a significant increase in IGF-1 protein levels in CD73−/− mice when compared with the levels in wild-type mice in hyperoxia; however, no difference in KGF protein levels was observed (Figure 4b).

Worthy of note, we measured protein levels in the verification step in the same cellular population where the discovery procedure was conducted, thus avoiding issues frequently emerging when using plasma and CSF samples (i.e., high dilution of the candidates in the body fluid and mixture with components coming from different body compartments).

In this study, targeted proteomics, via selected-reaction monitoring (SRM) mass spectrometry, was used to measure protein levels in Escherichia coli strains engineered to produce the sesquiterpene, amorpha-4,11-diene.