Concept information
Preferred term
Biological Assay
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- 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.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonym(s)
- Assay, Biological
- Assays, Biological
- Bioassay
- Biologic Assay
- Biologic Assays
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- ethics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- methods (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Essai biologique
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Test biologique
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-ZN131SF7-N
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