Suspensions biological method

The standard chemical and biological methods of analysis are those accepted by the JnitedStates Pharmacopeia XXIII as well as the ones accepted by the AO AC in 1995 (81—84). The USP method involves saponification of the sample (dry concentrate, premix, powder, capsule, tablet, or aqueous suspension) with aqueous alcohoHc KOH solvent extraction solvent removal chromatographic separation of vitamin D from extraneous ingredients and colormetric deterrnination with antimony trichloride and comparison with a solution of USP cholecalciferol reference standard. 

Alejo, N.O. (2006) Capsaicin accumulation in Capsicum spp. suspension cultures. Methods in Molecular Biology 318, 327-334. 

P. Zumbusch, W. Kulcke, G. Brunner. Use of alternating electric fields as antifouling strategy in ultrafiltration of biological suspensions. Introduction of a new experimental procedure for crossflow filtration. J Memb Sci 142-.15 (1998). R. L. Rowley, T. D. Shupe, M. W. Schuck. A direct method for determination of chemical potential with molecular dynamics simulations. 1. Pure components. Mol Phys 52 841, 1994. 

The primary method for detecting methyl parathion and metabolites in biological tissues is gas chromatography (GC) coupled with electron capture (BCD), flame photometric (FPD), or flame ionization detection (FID). Sample preparation for methyl parathion analysis routinely involves extraction with an organic solvent (e g., acetone or benzene), centrifugation, concentration, and re suspension in a suitable solvent prior to GC analysis. For low concentrations of methyl parathion, further cleanup procedures, such as column chromatography on silica gel or Florisil are required. 

The identification and quantification of potentially cytotoxic carbonyl compounds (e.g. aldehydes such as pentanal, hexanal, traw-2-octenal and 4-hydroxy-/mAW-2-nonenal, and ketones such as propan- and hexan-2-ones) also serves as a useful marker of the oxidative deterioration of PUFAs in isolated biological samples and chemical model systems. One method developed utilizes HPLC coupled with spectrophotometric detection and involves precolumn derivatization of peroxidized PUFA-derived aldehydes and alternative carbonyl compounds with 2,4-DNPH followed by separation of the resulting chromophoric 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazones on a reversed-phase column and spectrophotometric detection at a wavelength of378 nm. This method has a relatively high level of sensitivity, and has been successfully applied to the analysis of such products in rat hepatocytes and rat liver microsomal suspensions stimulated with carbon tetrachloride or ADP-iron complexes (Poli etui., 1985). 

Lipid peroxidation is probably the most studied oxidative process in biological systems. At present, Medline cites about 30,000 publications on lipid peroxidation, but the total number of studies must be much more because Medline does not include publications before 1970. Most of the earlier studies are in vitro studies, in which lipid peroxidation is carried out in lipid suspensions, cellular organelles (mitochondria and microsomes), or cells and initiated by simple chemical free radical-produced systems (the Fenton reaction, ferrous ions + ascorbate, carbon tetrachloride, etc). In these in vitro experiments reaction products (mainly, malon-dialdehyde (MDA), lipid hydroperoxides, and diene conjugates) were analyzed by physicochemical methods (optical spectroscopy and later on, HPLC and EPR spectroscopies). These studies gave the important information concerning the mechanism of lipid peroxidation, the structures of reaction products, etc. 

Prior to total RNA extraction, sample lysis procedures have to be performed. Lysis conditions are very important for the success of the RNA extraction and depend strongly upon the sample used. Due to great diversity, the biological sample can be pulverized, homogenized, sonicated, or otherwise disrupted to yield a mixture that contains cells, subcellular components, and other biological debris in an aqueous buffer or suspension. Here is described the protocol for the Trizol method of RNA extraction. 

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