The hemagglutination assay (HA) is a tool used to screen cell culture supernatant or amniotic-allantoic fluid harvested from embryonated chicken eggs for hemagglutinating agents, such as type A influenza. The HA is not an identification assay, as other agents also have hemagglutinating properties. Live and inactivated viruses are detected by the…[Read more]

67; 95% confidence interval 1.06-2.61 and hazard ratio 1.85; 95% confidence interval 1.15-2.96, respectively). However, after performing a multivariate analysis including other relevant clinicopathological factors, none of the body composition parameters were associated with any long-term outcome measures, even after stratifying by cancer…[Read more]

Regarding antibacterial assays, both species were active against methicillin resistant S. aureus. Fractionation and LC/MS dereplication of the fractions showed that the main compounds found in extracts of both species were EPA, DHA and ETA. For some of the detected compounds anticancer and/or antibacterial activity are already known, but this is…[Read more]