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nitroblue tetrazolium test — (for neutrophil microbicidal function) neutrophils are incubated with latex particles and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT). Normally phagocytosis of the particles is accompanied by reduction of NBT to a blue formazan pigment; absence of NBT reduction… … Medical dictionary
nitroblue tetrazolium — ni·tro·blue tet·ra·zo·li·um (niґtro bloo tet″rə zoґle əm) a yellow water soluble dye that on reduction is converted to a dark blue water insoluble formazan; see also under test … Medical dictionary
Cloruro de nitroblue tetrazolium — Nombre (IUPAC) … Wikipedia Español
tetrazolium — Any of a group of organic salts having the general structure that on reduction (cleaving the 2,3 bond) yields a colored insoluble formazan; used as a reagent in oxidative enzyme histochemistry. nitroblue t. ( … Medical dictionary
NBT — (= nitroblue tetrazolium) See nitroblue tetrazolium reduction … Dictionary of molecular biology
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formazan — A water insoluble colored compound of the general structure, RNH N=CR′ N=NR″, formed by reduction of a tetrazolium salt in the histochemical demonstration of oxidative enzymes; the R s are usually phenyl groups; examples include neotetrazolium,… … Medical dictionary
test — 1. To prove; to try a substance; to determine the chemical nature of a substance by means of reagents. 2. A method of examination, as to determine the presence or absence of a definite disease or of some substance in any of the fluids, tissues,… … Medical dictionary
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fructosamine test — determination of the serum fructosamine level by measurement of the reduction of nitroblue tetrazolium to purple under alkaline conditions; it is used as an index of the average glycemic state over the preceding two to three weeks and is used to… … Medical dictionary
