Sentence examples for reagent papers from inspiring English sources

People have been examining their urine and stools for signs of disease since Roman times and, after the association of diabetes with excess sugar in the early part of the 19th century, the English physician and physiologist George Oliver began marketing a range of urine reagent papers for home use in 1883.

In the subsequent work [ 65], a completely automated sAA activity system was fabricated using a disposable test-strip equipped with built-in collecting and reagent papers as well as an automatic saliva transfer device.

When a lever was operated, the reagent paper attached to the back of a spring of the sleeve was pushed towards the collecting paper, hence resulting in saliva transfer from the collecting paper to the reagent paper.

We used a hand-held monitor (CM-2.1, Nipro Corporation, Osaka, Japan) and reagent paper to measure enzymatic salivary α-amylase activity.

We describe here the storage of biological samples on FTA® paper (commercially available reagent-loaded papers similar to filing cards).

Previously, dry reagents in paper-based devices had only been included via conjugate pads.

All of the authors contributed either to the data generation, data analysis, reagents, or paper writing.

In addition, a few recent papers describe reagents that enable signaling pathways to be driven in response to light, including the creation of the second messenger cyclic AMP (cAMP) in response to light [59], or optical control of the beta-adrenergic signaling pathway using a beta-adrenergic receptor/rhodopsin hybrid protein [60].

These drugs did not produce a colour when tested with our assays with the exception of primaquine which produced an orange-brown coloration only when FBS was used as a reagent and filter paper as the support.

This paper describes a simple design for increasing the tolerance of reagent dislocation on a paper-based platform using a combination of wax-treated paper and a vortex mixer.

Given the recent interest in paper-based devices designed for quantitative analysis in point-of-care settings, a better understanding of reagent stability on filter paper is critical for proper device use and its longevity.