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  • noun The process of disrupting or homogenizing something, usually a chemical solution or biological medium, with sound waves.

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Examples

  • Today we use a system of liquid nitrogen and sonication to break these bone fragments to an even finer powder.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • Today we use a system of liquid nitrogen and sonication to break these bone fragments to an even finer powder.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • Endotoxin stock solutions were prepared in pyrogen free water at 10 nmole/ml concentration and further diluted with endotoxin free PBS to 1 nmole/ml and 100 pmole/ml with extensive vortex and sonication prior to each dilution The effect of noscapine analogs was investigated in time-course and dose-response experiments in well established human and murine cell lines.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010

  • The sonicate was prepared by an initial trypsination of confluent cell culture flasks followed by sonication for 30 s (amplitude 10 microns) using a MSE Soniprep 150 sonicator (Sanyo).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hans-Christian Ingerslev et al. 2010

  • Pellets were thawed on ice and resuspended in cell lysis buffer A (50 mM Tris-Cl pH [8.0], 300 mM NaCl, 1 mM DTT, 1 mM EDTA, 1X Protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche) and 1 mM PMSF) and lysed by sonication.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gunjan Arora et al. 2010

  • The biofilm was removed from the CBD pegs by sonication for 5 min.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chakrit Sawasdidoln et al. 2010

  • For this, fifty mg of the sampled tissues were homogenised by sonication for 30 s (amplitude 10 microns) using a MSE Soniprep 150 sonicator (Sanyo) and RNA was further isolated using a GenElute Mammalian ™

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hans-Christian Ingerslev et al. 2010

  • The Protein G sepharose beads were washed with cold ChIP sonication buffer containing no protease inhibitors.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anil K. Singh et al. 2010

  • Harvested cells were treated with lysozyme (1 mg/ml) at 4°C for 30 min and lysed in lysis buffer containing 300 mM NaCl, 10 mM imidazole, 5 mM β-mercaptoethanol, 0. 01% triton X-100, 50 mM Tris (pH 8.0) by sonication on ice.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Christopher G. Langendorf et al. 2010

  • DNA was sheared by sonication and the cell debris was pelleted by centrifugation at 14,000xg for 15 minutes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anil K. Singh et al. 2010

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