Sentence examples for more difficult to assay from inspiring English sources

This biomarker, while more difficult to assay, has an advantage over GSH/GSSG measurements, in that it may be less affected by compartment mixing during cell lysis [ 33].

These enzymes are known to be difficult to assay.

The strains represented in both class (i) and (ii) are expected to be more difficult to detect in assays employing just one late time point to measure sensitivity.

It is also more difficult to control the environmental conditions and to assay the cell-type specificity of gene expression change in a metazoan compared with unicellular organisms.

These findings illustrate how extra caution is needed in interpreting a design with multiple, separate distributions, which is more difficult to interpret than a single distribution assay.

The effect of CUR on cellular invasion of bacteria using the gentamicin protection assay was more difficult to assess.

A viral neutralization assay, however, is a functional assay that is technically more difficult to perform and requires live viruses, and therefore may require a biosafety level 3 facility.

This antibody repertoire may also be cross-reactive to closely related variant viruses making it more difficult to develop sensitive and specific serological assays [ 2– 4].

The lack of a robust association between IL-1β and major depression might be partly attributable to measurement issues, as the concentrations of IL-1β are very low in blood and therefore more difficult to determine accurately using conventional immunological assays.

It is possible that since all women in the current study had an abnormality that required surgical biopsy, this raised the background of the assay making it more difficult to distinguish cancer from benign.

However, sensitive assays are much more difficult to achieve than with heterogeneous systems.