Thymidine incorporation (1x10^3 cpm)

[sticky1]

Hi. What does Thymidine incorporation refers to? I have this graph and on the y axis has Thymidine incorporation with units of (x10^3 cpm)? Does anyone what it could be refering to? Maybe cytokine production??

[UTPEOPLE]

Hi. What does Thymidine incorporation refers to? I have this graph and on the y axis has Thymidine incorporation with units of (x10^3 cpm)? Does anyone what it could be refering to? Maybe cytokine production??

 

measures of any incorporation is usually dealing with radio-labelled substances. Therefore, cpm likely refers to counts per minute, the amount of radiation that is detected (which is proportional to the amount of incorporated thymidine)

[andyng85]

Depending on the context... but probably provides a measure of DNA replication/cell proliferation etc.