Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

6-fach Bestimmung

English translation:

assayed in sextuplicate

Added to glossary by Stephen Old
Sep 6, 2014 17:14
9 yrs ago
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German term

6-fach Bestimmung

German to English Science Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) Electrophoresis- determination of clot lysis activity
As in my previous question, this relates to the determination clot lysis activity in the buffer solution. Some of the tests are described as being 2-fach Bestimmungen of the quantities of protein (or of other substances, like thrombin, contained in the buffers. Here we have a similar situation in which there is a reference of a 6-fach Bestimmung and a 3-fach Bestimmung. There must be a neat way to translate this into English.
In this section on loading the plates for analysis we have the following description: Pro Aznalyse können bis zu vier Proben gegen den RS geprüft werden. Pro RS und Probe werden vier Konzentrationen eingesezt. (......)
Beim RS wird die Aktivität jeder Konzentration aus einer 6-fach Bestimmung und bei den Proben aus einer 3-fach Bestimmung ermittelt.

Discussion

Stephen Old (asker) Sep 6, 2014:
6-fach Bestimmung Thanks, lirka. That is probably a good way of putting it. I did not know if there is a stndard specialist term for this concept.

Proposed translations

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assayed in sextuplicate

Constructed in analogy to the usual "Doppelbestimmung"/duplicate - and it yields almost 2,000 G hits; such as:

The influence of each drug concentration on each cell line was assayed in sextuplicate by means of the colorimetric MTT assay.
http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/6/9/3774/T1.ex...

TABLE 3. Percent cholesterol absorption by IRM-all available points vs. single blood assayed in sextuplicate.
http://www.jlr.org/content/23/3/480.full.pdf
Note from asker:
Thanks a lot, Anne. I knew there would be a standard way of phrasing this but I do not usually work in this field.
Peer comment(s):

agree Donald Jacobson : Good find, Anne
14 hrs
Thanks Donald :-))
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks again for your expert help, Anne"
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a series of 6 measurements

That's how I would put it, but note my low CL :)
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