COMET ASSAY

  

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COMET ASSAY

Specialty Definition: COMET ASSAY

DomainDefinition

Health

A genotoxicological technique for measuring DNA damage in an individual cell using single-cell gel electrophoresis. Cell DNA fragments assume a "comet with tail" formation on electrophoresis and are detected with an image analysis system. Alkaline assay conditions facilitate sensitive detection of single-strand damage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COMET ASSAY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

comet assay

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: COMET ASSAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-m-o-s-s-t-y"

-2 letters: atemoyas, seacoast.

-3 letters: atemoya, caeomas, camases, comates, ecstasy, mascots, mycoses.

-4 letters: ascots, caeoma, camass, cameos, castes, cestas, cestos, coasts, comate, comets, comtes, cosets, coseys, cosset, costae, coyest, cymose, escots, mascot, mateys, mayest, moseys, myases, myoses, mysost, samosa, satays, sayest, somata, steams, steamy, stomas, system, yeasts.

-5 letters: aceta, acmes, amass, ascot, assay, asset, atmas, atoms.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-m-o-s-s-t-y"
 

+3 letters: gynecomastias.

 

+5 letters: aerodynamicists, ancylostomiases, compassionately, reactionaryisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COMET ASSAY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 4D 45 54      41 53 53 41 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001101 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#77 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#65 &#83 &#83 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004D 0045 0054      0041 0053 0053 0041 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374947395423553533559

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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