Concept information
Preferred term
Biological Assay
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Assay, Biologic
- Assay, Biological
- Assays, Biologic
- Assays, Biological
- Bioassay
- Bioassays
- Biological Assays
- Biologic Assay
- Biologic Assays
Note
- assays using living-matter intermediate; check text: not all "bioassays" are MeSH term BIOLOGICAL ASSAY
Scope note
- A method of measuring the effects of a biologically active substance using an intermediate in vivo or in vitro tissue or cell model under controlled conditions. It includes virulence studies in animal fetuses in utero, mouse convulsion bioassay of insulin, quantitation of tumor-initiator systems in mouse skin, calculation of potentiating effects of a hormonal factor in an isolated strip of contracting stomach muscle, etc.
In other languages
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Finnish
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bioassay
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Swedish
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Biologiska metoder
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001681
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