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The first fractionation of urinary ampholytes in this way was carried out by Boulanger et al. (BIO) in 1952 with the use of ion-exchange resins. They had designed this procedure previously for the fractionation of ampholytes in blood serum (B8). According to this method, deproteinized urine was subjected to a double initial procedure aiming at the separation of low-molecular weight substances from macro-molecular ones. One of the methods consisted of the fractionation of urinary constituents by means of dialysis, the second was based on the selective precipitation of urinary ampholytes with cadmium hydroxide, which, as had previously been demonstrated, permits separation of the bulk of amino acids from polypeptides precipitated under these circumstances. Three fractions, i.e., the undialyzable part of urine, the dialyzed fraction, and the so-called cadmium precipitate were analyzed subsequently. 

The slowing down of enzyme reactions has often been attributed to reaction with, or equilibrium between, the enzyme and its substrate or between the enzyme and the products of its action. In order to determine the influence of the products of the action of pancreatic amylase on the extent of the hydrolysis of starch, portions of its hydrolysis mixtures were subjected to efficient dialysis during hydrolysis and the results compared with aliquots of the reaction mixture which had been treated in the same way except for dialysis.41 The results of such experiments... 

Liquid samples with low protein concentrations or large amounts of salt should be desalted and concentrated prior to 2-DE. Desalination can be achieved by dialysis or liquid chromatography. The desalted sample is then lyophilized, subject to dialysis against polyethylene glycol or precipitated with acetone to remove interfering compounds. 

Following initial sample extraction, the primary extract must frequently be subjected to some kind of further cleanup including liquid-liquid partitioning, diphasic dialysis, solid-phase extraction, matrix solid-phase dispersion, immunoaffinity chromatography cleanup, liquid chromatography cleanup, or online trace enrichment. In some instances, some of these procedures are used in combination in order to attain higher purification levels. 

To eliminate or reduce interference and concentrate the analyte(s), the primary sample extract may further be subjected to various types of cleanup procedures including conventional liquid-liquid partitioning, solid-phase extraction, matrix solid-phase dispersion, and online dialysis and subsequent trace enrichment (Table 29.6). In most instances, more than one of these procedures is used in combination to enhance the cleanup efficiency. 

The primary sample extract is subsequently subjected to cleanup using several different approaches including conventional liquid-liquid partitioning, diphasic dialysis, solid-phase extraction, immunoaffinity chromatography, and... 

Subject the solution obtained to dialysis and treat the washing water first with phenolphthalein and then with methyl orange. Pour the solution into a number of test tubes and add to them 1 N solutions of salts of mono-, di-, and trivalent cations, respectively. What is observed Explain the occurring processes. 

For a protein, the isoionic pH is the pH of a solution of pure protein with no other ions except H+ and OH Proteins are usually isolated in a chaiged form together with counterions such as Na+, NH4, or C1. When the protein is subjected to intensive dialysis (Demonstration 27-1) against pure water, the pH in the protein compartment approaches the isoionic point if the counterions are free to pass through the semipermeable dialysis membrane that retains the protein. The isoelectric point is the pH at which the protein has no net charge. Box 10-2 tells how proteins can be separated on the basis of their different isoelectric points. 

Elevated levels of Al have been reported in some regions of the brains of subjects dying with AD.64 The intracellular locus of Al accumulation is the nuclear chromatin in AD,65-66 and the cytoplasm in dialysis brains.67 The association of Al with the nuclei of brain cells has also been demonstrated in experimental animals with Al-induced encephalopathy.68 69 Researchers agree that Al levels increase with human age however, whether the levels are pathologically elevated in AD patients, or are just age associated, remains controversial.70 71 It seems likely that there is a regulatory mechanism for Al in the human body, and that Al may be an essential element whose function has not yet been identified. 

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