ultracentrifugation

[ul″trah-sen-trif″u-ga´shun]

subjection of material to an exceedingly high centrifugal force, which will separate and sediment the molecules of a substance.

ul·tra·cen·tri·fu·ga·tion

(ŭl'tră-sen'tri-fyū-gā'shŭn),

The process of subjection to an ultracentrifuge.

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Residual urinary extracellular vesicles in ultracentrifugation supernatants after hydrostatic filtration dialysis enrichment.

Urinary Extracellular Vesicle: A Potential Source of Early Diagnostic and Therapeutic Biomarker in Diabetic Kidney Disease

Routine ultracentrifugation is impracticable, but electrophoresis can demonstrate lipoprotein fractions in small sample volumes and remains useful for the diagnosis of several dyslipidaemias.

Laboratory investigations in lipidology

* Non-chylomicron-containing lipid species that may cause false-positive chylomicron detection on lipoprotein analysis can be identified with additional fractionation of the body fluid by ultracentrifugation.

A Man with Recurrent Ascites after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Weisman, "Advanced sorting of single-walled carbon nanotubes by nonlinear density-gradient ultracentrifugation," Nature Nanotechnology, vol.

Capitalizing resolving power of density gradient ultracentrifugation by freezing and precisely slicing centrifuged solution: enabling identification of complex proteins from mitochondria by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Pellets formed during ultracentrifugation (bluish gray hemocyanin (HC) pellet) were saved; the supernatant was discarded.

Analytical and semipreparative HPLC analysis and isolation of hemocyanin from the American lobster Homarus americanus

Concentration of Phage Filtrate by Ultracentrifugation. The phage filtrate was further concentrated by ultracentrifugation as per Eyer et al.

Proteomic characterization of lytic bacteriophages of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from sewage affluent of India

These extracellular vesicles can be isolated by ultracentrifugation (21), and it is not known if overlapping can occur between these two different populations of extracellular vesicles.

Extracellular vesicles: structure, function, and potential clinical uses in renal diseases