competitive binding assay

[ kəm-pĕt′ĭ-tĭv ]

n.

An assay in which a biologically specific binding agent competes for radioactively labeled or unlabeled compounds, used especially to measure the concentration of hormone receptors in a sample by introducing a radioactively labeled hormone.

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