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|description=A '''sample''' is one or more parts taken from a system and intended to provide information on the system, often to serve as a basis for | |description=A '''sample''' is one or more parts taken from a system and intended to provide information on the system, often to serve as a basis for evaluation of the system (diagnosis) or for a decision on intervention (therapy, production process). | ||
Compare: [[Primary sample]]. | Compare: [[Primary sample]]. | ||
|info=[[ISO 15189:2012 Medical laboratories — Particular requirements for quality and competence]] | |info=[[ISO 15189:2012 Medical laboratories — Particular requirements for quality and competence]] | ||
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|mitopedia concept=MitoFit Quality Control System | |mitopedia concept=MitoFit Quality Control System | ||
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:::: An experimental '''sample''' is the object of an [[assay]]. A sample of a defined [[sample type]] subjected to a specific sample preparation (see [[MitoPedia: Sample preparations]]) may be e.g. a mitochondrial preparation obtained from an organ, cells suspended from a cell culture dish, a tissue biopsy, an organ, an individual organism, or a group of organisms (e.g. a number of nematodes studied collectively in an experimental chamber). | :::: An experimental '''sample''' is the object of an [[assay]]. A sample of a defined [[sample type]] subjected to a specific sample preparation (see [[MitoPedia: Sample preparations]]) may be e.g. a mitochondrial preparation obtained from an organ, cells suspended from a cell culture dish, a tissue biopsy, an organ, an individual organism, or a group of organisms (e.g. a number of nematodes studied collectively in an experimental chamber). | ||
:::: EXAMPLE: A blood '''sample''' or a biopsy taken from an individual organism. For these examples, the '''[[sample size]]''', ''N'', corresponds to the number of organisms in a study group (arm). A sample may be processed and split into a number of '''[[subsample]]s''', ''n'' (smaller volumes of serum taken from a larger volume of serum), for replicate measurements on the same sample. |
Revision as of 09:54, 28 May 2016
Description
[[Description::A sample is one or more parts taken from a system and intended to provide information on the system, often to serve as a basis for evaluation of the system (diagnosis) or for a decision on intervention (therapy, production process). Compare: Primary sample.]]
Reference: [[Info::ISO 15189:2012 Medical laboratories — Particular requirements for quality and competence]]
MitoPedia concepts:
MitoFit Quality Control System
MitoPedia topics:
Sample preparation
MitoFit Quality Control System
Contributed by Gnaiger E 2016-01-27
- An experimental sample is the object of an assay. A sample of a defined sample type subjected to a specific sample preparation (see MitoPedia: Sample preparations) may be e.g. a mitochondrial preparation obtained from an organ, cells suspended from a cell culture dish, a tissue biopsy, an organ, an individual organism, or a group of organisms (e.g. a number of nematodes studied collectively in an experimental chamber).
- EXAMPLE: A blood sample or a biopsy taken from an individual organism. For these examples, the sample size, N, corresponds to the number of organisms in a study group (arm). A sample may be processed and split into a number of subsamples, n (smaller volumes of serum taken from a larger volume of serum), for replicate measurements on the same sample.