To better understand molecular mechanisms regulating changes in metabolism, as observed e.g. in diabetes or neuronal disorders, the function of mitochondria needs to be precisely determined. The usual isolation methods such as differential centrifugation result in isolates of highly variable quality and quantity. To fulfill the need of a reproducible isolation method from solid tissues, which i...

Microparticles (MP) are small (100-1000 nm) membrane vesicles shed by cells as a response to activation, stress or apoptosis. Platelet-derived MP (PMP) has been shown to reflect the pathophysiological processes of a range of cardiovascular diseases and there is a potential clinical value in using PMPs as biomarkers, as well as a need to better understand the biology of these vesicles. The curre...

We describe an immunoassay of digoxin that exploits the differential sedimentation rate between two types of latex particles in a microcentrifugal analyzer. Conventional polystyrene latex particles (relative density = 1.05), sensitized with antibody, are first suspended with the sample and then mixed with digoxin-sensitized latex particles (relative density = 1.5). In the absence of digoxin in ...

Despite numerous studies, isolating pure preparations of extracellular vesicles (EVs) has proven challenging. Here, we compared ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) to the widely used sucrose density gradient (SDG) centrifugation method for the purification of EVs. EVs in bulk were isolated from pooled normal human amniotic fluid (AF) by differential centrifugation followed by IEC or sucrose densi...

background: platelet preparations have been used for a wide variety of clinical applications such as hemorrhage, tissue engineering and cellular therapy. platelet concentrates can be prepared by the apheresis method or from the whole blood using the buffy-coat or platelet-rich plasma methods. the purpose of this study was to compare four variations of platelet-rich plasma method based on double...

Centrifugal separations can be classified into three categories, namely differential pelleting, rate-zonal centrifugation and isopycnic centrifugation. Although differential pelleting is the most widely used technique, it has only a limited potential for providing the investigator with purified material. Thus only the last two techniques, both of which involve separations on density gradients, ...