Glossary
Aspiration Test
This simple test ensures that you are not injecting into a blood vessel. Insert the needle into the muscle, and then pull back on the plunger. If you withdraw blood into the barrel of the syringe, you are in a blood vessel. In that case choose a different injection site. Expression
Use of the information in a gene via transcription and translation resulting in a phenotype. Protease
A proteolytic enzyme. Proteolytic
Destructive of protein, usually by hydrolysis of peptide bonds. Proteasome
A multi-subunit complex of proteases within a cell. Ubiquitin
A small protein found in all cells.