Separating Cells : The Basics by Dipak Patel

By Dipak Patel

Separating Cells: The basics offers trouble-free and useful tips to the ideas most typically used to split cells. The booklet deals a concise evaluation of the elemental ideas and explains the 'what, how and why'. This name may be of substantial curiosity to rookies to those thoughts.

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When the density of the medium exceeds that of the particle, the rate of sedimentation is negative, and the particle will migrate against the direction of the centrifugal force; 40 SEPARATING CELLS 5. the sedimentation rate decreases as the liquid viscosity increases; and 6. the sedimentation rate increases as the gravitational force increases. The equation also implies that cells can be separated either on the basis of their buoyant densities or on the basis of their sedimentation rates, the latter of which is determined primarily by differences in size.

7. Seal the Petri dish with Parafilm and wrap in aluminum foil. Leave overnight at room temperature. 8. Carefully tease the leaf strips gently to release the protoplasts. 9. Filter the enzyme solution containing the protoplasts through a 45-µm nylon mesh; this will remove debris. 10. Centrifuge the filtrate at 75 g for 5 min. 11. Aspirate the supernatant. Resuspend the pellet in 10 ml of MS culture medium containing 13% mannitol. 12. Wash three times with MS culture medium; centrifuge as before.

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