The team's specimen of choice: a marijuana cultivar called Purple Kush.
Urine was the specimen of choice as a result of the use of cervical products in this trial that may have affected the quality of either cervical or vaginal samples.
Both specimens from women are suitable but the vulvovaginal swab is the specimen of choice in women [ 55].
Blood is the specimen of choice for obtaining genomic DNA for most large scale epidemiological studies [ 1, 2].
15 16 A vulvovaginal swab is known to be a more sensitive specimen than first catch urine, and thus is the specimen of choice.
The specimen of choice for measuring bulky PAH adducts in workplace studies is often blood lymphocytes or buccal cells collected with mouth swabs (Cavallo et al., 2009).
Although plasma is the specimen of choice for early diagnosis, proteomic-based biomarker studies also rely on cells grown in culture and tissue samples.
As a clinical trial, it is not possible to study cardiac tissues of the patients, thus, blood samples are our specimen of choice, and neutrophils are the target cells.
