The serum prolactin level is less sensitive for detecting partial seizures.

The Guthrie assay is sensitive enough to detect serum phenylalanine levels of 180-240 μmol / L ( 3 – 4 mg / dL ).

A low serum ferritin is the most sensitive lab test for iron deficiency anemia.

Serum iron levels ( i. e., iron not part of the hemoglobin in red cells ) may be measured directly in the blood, but these levels increase immediately with iron supplementation ( the patient must stop supplements for 24 hours ), and pure blood-serum iron concentration in any case is not as sensitive as a combination of total serum iron, along with a measure of the serum iron-binding protein levels ( TIBC ).

The calcium-sensing receptor ( CaSR ) is sensitive to an increase in serum calcium, and stimulates the uptake of calcium by the parathyroid chief cell.

In general, serum lipase is thought to be more sensitive and specific than serum amylase in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis "

At this stage, the kidney may leak more serum albumin ( plasma protein ) than normal in the urine ( albuminuria ), and this can be detected by sensitive medical tests for albumin.

Fetal bovine serum is commercially available from many manufacturers, and because cells grown in vitro are highly sensitive, customers usually test specific batches to check for suitability for their specific cell type.

It is a very sensitive test and is often used for determining the nutritional requirements of cells, testing serum lots, measuring the effects of growth factors, and for toxicity testing.

Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry, FA-MS, is a sensitive and quantitative mass spectrometry analytical approach that offers a route to on-line, real-time deuterium abundance measurements in water vapour in breath and above aqueous liquids, including urine and serum.

A Chinese study of couples practicing random intercourse to achieve pregnancy used very sensitive pregnancy tests to detect pregnancy.

Studies using very sensitive early pregnancy tests have found that 25 % of embryos are aborted by the sixth week LMP ( since the woman's last menstrual period ), even if a woman does not realize it.

As pregnancy tests, quantitative blood tests and the most sensitive urine tests usually detect hCG between 6 and 12 days after ovulation.

Qualitative blood tests generally have a threshold of 25 mIU / mL, and so are less sensitive than some available home pregnancy tests.

It could take up to 12 further days for implantation to occur, meaning even the most sensitive pregnancy tests may give false negatives up to 17 days after the act that caused the pregnancy.

Many episodes tackled difficult topics such as drug use, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, homosexuality, homophobia, racism, and divorce, and the series was acclaimed for its sensitive and realistic portrayal of the challenges of teenage life.

This was in part because her mother's wolf instincts could not understand his apparent abandonment during her pregnancy, and sensitive Polgara had picked up on this.

Acute leukemias normally require prompt, aggressive treatment, despite significant risks of pregnancy loss and birth defects, especially if chemotherapy is given during the developmentally sensitive first trimester.

Upregulation and downregulation can also happen as a response to toxins or hormones, for example in pregnancy, hormones cause cells in the uterus to become more sensitive to oxytocin.

At first, Lois appreciates Peter's new sensitive nature, but soon tires of it ( he spends more time on the mirror, doing pregnancy tests, scolding Lois for cooking dinner for her husband, though Peter is her husband, saying he should take a breast exam when Lois tells Peter about her body, and even tried to breastfeed Stewie when Lois is not looking ).

The tester strains also carry mutations in the genes responsible for lipopolysaccharide synthesis, making the cell wall of the bacteria more permeable, and in the excision repair system to make the test more sensitive.

* The 21 centimeter absorption line of neutral atomic hydrogen also provides a sensitive test of cosmology

Mechanical properties of gelatin gels ( for example the gel strength, which is quantified using the Bloom test ) are very sensitive to temperature variations, previous thermal history of the gel, and time.

The two-sample KS test is one of the most useful and general nonparametric methods for comparing two samples, as it is sensitive to differences in both location and shape of the empirical cumulative distribution functions of the two samples.

This small change makes Kuiper's test as sensitive in the tails as at the median and also makes it invariant under cyclic transformations of the independent variable.

Researchers are unable to experimentally test the effects of the sensitive period of development on language acquisition, because it would be unethical to deprive children of language until this period is over.

In single fiber electromyography ( SFEMG ), which is considered to be the most sensitive ( although not the most specific ) test for MG, a thin needle electrode is inserted into different areas of a particular muscle to record the action potentials from several samplings of different individual muscle fibers.

Diaconis used a very sensitive test of randomness, and therefore needed to shuffle more.

One sensitive test for randomness uses a standard deck without the jokers divided into suits with two suits in ascending order from ace to king, and the other two suits in reverse.

Another important issue is that Miller asks for an interpretation of what the " average " person finds offensive, rather than what the more sensitive persons in the community are offended by, as obscenity was defined by the previous test, the Hicklin test, stemming from the English precedent.

The test object is instrumented with a sensitive balance to measure the forces generated by airflow ; or, the airflow may have smoke or other substances injected to make the flow lines around the object visible.

Suppose a drug test is 99 % sensitive and 99 % specific.

There are many electrodiagnostic tests used to make a diagnosis of CTS, but the most sensitive, specific, and reliable test is the Combined Sensory Index ( also known as Robinson index ).

It may not seem surprising to us that when Rivers was to apply a needle to a particularly sensitive part of the glans that " pain appeared and was so excessively unpleasant that cried out and started away "; indeed, such a test could be seen as a futility verging on the masochistic.

As with the aforementioned criteria, this test is specific but not particularly sensitive ( with a false-negative rate of as high as 25 % in the first week, 5 – 10 % in the second and 5 % in the third ).

There are several licensed test kits on the market which are sensitive, specific and detect all serotypes of.

This is information that could easily be handled by a person but the IVR system is used to preserve privacy and avoid potential embarrassment of sensitive information or test results.

The Marsh test is a highly sensitive method in the detection of arsenic, especially useful in the field of forensic toxicology when arsenic was used as a poison.

An important requirement in clinical diagnosis and testing is sensitivity and specificity-a test needs to be sensitive enough to detect the relevant problem if it is present ( and therefore avoid too many false negative results ), but specific enough not to respond to other things ( and therefore avoid too many false positive results ).

The chemical test, or chemical spot test method, utilizes application of sensitive chemicals that can indicate the presence of individual alloying elements.

DFA test for the L-type serovar of C trachomatis is the most sensitive and specific test, but is not readily available.