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immunoblotting (medicine) and Tucuna (sh)


immunoblotting (medicine)


immunoblotting
<technique> Very small amounts of protein are transferred from gels to nitrocellulose sheets by electrophoresis and then detected by their antibody binding, usually in combination with peroxidase or radioactively labelled IgG. An accurate technique for the specific recognition of very small amounts of protein.


Tucuna (sh)




or Ticuna or Tikuna

South American Indian people living in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.

Traditional Tucunas live in the rainforest of the northwestern Amazon basin, cultivating cassava and corn (maize), raising chickens, and hunting and gathering in the forest. They make baskets, pottery, and bark cloth and trade animal hides and handmade canoes for money and manufactured goods. They were once skilled hunters with blowguns, spears, and snares, but depletion of animal populations has altered old hunting patterns.