competitive binding assay

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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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Example sentences from the Web for competitive binding assay

In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
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Boys are taught early in life to devalue care, to be hyper-competitive, super-achieving men.
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“These towns that are doing it just continue to make New Jersey less and less competitive,” Christie said.
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The follow-up story is how those who survived both the competitive onslaught, as well as the recession, have adapted.
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Binding the resolution of my case to progress in the nuclear negotiations is profoundly unjust.
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This is simpler than having to cram and then stand the racket of a competitive examination.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
Again, common law decisions are not binding on the courts that make them like statutes or legislative commands.
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Twenty baskets of it were obtained by the said miners to assay and investigate its nature, and determine what it might be.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
On being fused with twenty-three libras of lead, nothing was obtained from the said assay.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
Thence were taken fifteen baskets of gravel and dirt, which has the color of coal, in order to assay it.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various

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