Example sentences for: compounds

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  • To determine the effect of the compounds on cell proliferation, after 24 h incubation, the cells were washed and further incubated in the absence of the compounds for 1 day, and then a trypan blue assay was done.

  • CV-1 cells were seeded at 3.5 × 10 3cells/well (in growth medium) in a 96-well plate and allowed to attach overnight; the compounds (in growth medium) were then added.

  • Antibodies against these proteins have been shown to inhibit IP 3 formation to bitter compounds in taste cells [ 8, 17, 18], suggesting that they are important components of the bitter-stimulated IP 3 pathway.

  • Previous studies have found changes in sex ratio following exposure to hormonally active compounds, and different effects of chemicals on mothers and fathers could have opposing effects on the sex ratio [ 22 46 ] . Hormonally induced ovulation leads to a clear reduction in the sex ratio of offspring [ 47 ] , a result that has also been found following paternal exposure to the nematocide dibromochloropropane [ 23 24 ] . Paternal, but not maternal, exposure to dioxin following an explosion at an herbicide factory in Seveso, Italy was found to reduce the sex ratio [ 26 27 ] . In contrast, among veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the unit responsible for spraying Agent Orange and other dioxin-containing herbicides in Vietnam, paternal dioxin levels greater than 10 ppt were associated with an increased percentage of male children [ 48 ] . In the latter study, however, maternal dioxin levels were not measured (although these would be expected not to be above background), and the paternal levels were likely somewhat lower than levels in men exposed following the Seveso incident.

  • This was determined by incubation in growth medium containing serial dilutions of compounds in the range of 50 - 2000 μg/mL for 2 days, after which the viable cell numbers were determined.


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