Sentences with phrase «as nanograms»

«A testosterone level test measures the amount of testosterone in the blood and is reported as nanograms per deciliter (ng / dL)» [Healthline].

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The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

A 2009 study found an increased risk of accidents for levels of THC higher than five nanograms per milliliter of blood, which some evidence indicates is as impairing as a blood alcohol concentration around the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Of 170 individuals with prediabetes who had not taken vitamin D supplements in the past six months, 125 had vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, which the researchers defined as a vitamin D blood level (25 - hydroxyvitamin D) of 30 nanograms per milliliter (ng / mL) or less.

The organization now recommends higher blood levels of the vitamin than the institute suggested — 30 nanograms per milliliter as opposed to 20 — which would require supplements.

And in glasses of Pinot Blanc that had been tainted by female fruit flies or trace amounts of pheromone, the tasters found the taste «somewhat unpleasant» when as little as 1 nanogram of the pheromone was present (doi.org/10.1101/206375).

Although irisin circulates at low levels (nanograms), this range is comparable to that observed for other important biological hormones such as insulin.

Testing on commercial beer and barley showed that the portable instrument detected levels as low as 0.2 nanograms / milliliter of ochratoxin A and 120 ng / mL of deoxynivalenol — respectively, the estimated safe limits for these mycotoxins.

As applied to the Initiative, the enhanced sensitivity of the laser ablation measurement approach will be harnessed for measuring stable isotope content of nanogram amounts of RNA samples.

The plated cells were then dissociated and counted using a hemocytometer in order to express results as picograms or nanograms of growth factor produced per day per million cells.

They then used the platform to determine the size distribution of as little as 10 nanograms (one - billionth of a gram) of HA extracted from the synovial fluid of a horse model of osteoarthritis.

While researchers are still determining the optimal level of vitamin D in the blood for people with MS, a suggested range of 40 to 60 nanograms per milliliter (ng / ml) has been proposed as a target.

Because vitamin D can come from sun, food, and supplements, the best measure of one's vitamin D status is blood levels of a form known as 25 - hydroxyvitamin D. Levels are described in either nanomoles per liter (nmol / L) or nanograms per milliliter (ng / mL), where 1 nmol / L = 0.4 ng / mL.

As little as 2 nanograms LPS per kilogram body weight will induce fever, and 1 microgram LPS per kilogram of body weight will induce shocAs little as 2 nanograms LPS per kilogram body weight will induce fever, and 1 microgram LPS per kilogram of body weight will induce shocas 2 nanograms LPS per kilogram body weight will induce fever, and 1 microgram LPS per kilogram of body weight will induce shock.

If Colorado Senate bill 117 is passed into law it will set 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood as the upper limit for THC found in blood samples taken by law enforcement as the standard for intoxication.