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bioautography

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bioautography

[¦bī·ō‚ȯ′täg·rə·fē]
(analytical chemistry)
A bioassay based upon the ability of some compounds (for example, vitamin B12) to enhance the growth of some organisms or compounds and to repress the growth of others; used to assay certain antibiotics.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The results of bioautography show the antibacterial activity in different bio-compounds (Figure 2).
TLC bioautography (TLC bio) is an effective and inexpensive technique that combines the chromatographic separation with in situ localization of compounds with biological activity [30-32].
Those aspects constitute Schneemanns version of what I call bioautography. This critical neologism inverts the normative term "autobiography": instead of the "self-life-writing" order of the term autobiography, the term bioautography gives primacy to the bio-life in self-writing.
The qualitative test (bioautography antioxidant assay) involved DPPH only, and the quantitative test involved DPPH, hydrogen peroxide, and reducing assays.
Extraction methods and bioautography for evaluation of medicinal plant antimicrobial activity.
Inayat, Antibacterial Activities of Dodonaea viscose using Contact Bioautography Technique.
The compounds contained in these extracts over silica gel were also evaluated through bioautography.
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