Rat kidney contains two distinct glutaminase isoenzymes; one of which is phosphate-dependent, the other is phosphateindependent but is strongly activated by maleate. The phosphate-dependent glutaminase is contained within mitochondria. Its activity cofractionates with mitochondrial marker activities during differential centrifugation and on sucrose gradients using both isopycnic and sedimentati...

BACKGROUND The effect of centrifugation time of heparinized blood samples on clinical chemistry and immunology results has rarely been studied. WHO guideline proposed a 15 min centrifugation time without citing any scientific publications. The centrifugation time has a considerable impact on the turn-around-time. METHODS We investigated 74 parameters in samples from 44 patients on a Roche Cob...

SETTING Health centres in Awassa, southern Ethiopia. DESIGN Consecutive patients visiting health centre laboratories for the evaluation of suspected pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) between June and September 2006 were investigated. On-the-spot, morning and second on-the-spot sputum samples were pooled for each patient. Direct smears were stained with hot Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) technique and aliquots ...

Sexing and centrifugation of spermatozoa is one way to improve the quality spermatozoa. This study aimed obtain right time for sexing with Bovine Serum Albumin media on morphology X-Y in Simmental cattle. was carried out from October 2021 November at Laboratory Animal Reproduction Health Breeding Center Superior Livestock Forage, Sembawa. The design used this a completely randomized (CRD) 3 tre...

The osmolarity and density of colloids used to prepare spermatozoa for assisted reproduction may affect sperm quality in the resultant preparation. In this study, two osmolarities of Androcoll-E for single-layer or density gradient centrifugation of stallion spermatozoa were compared: "normal" (320 mOsm) or "high" (345 mOsm). Mean yields for the two centrifugation techniques did not differ betw...

Solutions of Renografin (30-60%) can be centrifuged to form density gradients in the range from 1.0 g/cm(3) to 1.4 g/cm(3) or, alternatively, preformed gradients can be made which under appropriate conditions of centrifugation have an indefinite stability. Such solutions have a low viscosity and a relatively low ionic strength. The density of DNA in such solutions is surprisingly low ( approxim...