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competitive-binding assay

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competitive-binding assay
[kompet′itiv]
Etymology: L, competere, to come together
an analytic procedure based on the reversible binding of a ligand to a binding protein. In proportion to its concentration, the ligand competes with a labeled derivative for binding to the limited number of available binding sites.


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In addition, the binding affinities of CNP and CNP-amino to human androgen receptor (hAR) and human estrogen receptor-[alpha] (hER[alpha]) were also investigated using a receptor competitive-binding assay (Satoh et al.
However, styrene oligomers were reported to have no endocrine disruptive effect both in a MCF-7 cell proliferation assay (10) and in a radioisotope (RI) receptor competitive-binding assay using rat estrogen receptor (10,11).
 
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