Blood Cell Lysis
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A Simple Red Blood Cell Lysis Method for the Establishment of B Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines
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2017
A simple red blood cell lysis method for establishing B-LCLs was developed with high immortalization efficiency, requiring a small amount of blood and saving time from initiation to cryopreservation.
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Automated Microfluidic Blood Lysis Protocol for Enrichment of Circulating Nucleated Cells
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2009
An automated microfluidic device was developed for circulating nucleated cell enrichment from peripheral blood via erythrocyte lysis that ensures isolation of high quality sample without cell loss.
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Tissue Homogenization and Cell Lysis
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2023
Tissue homogenization involves disintegrating tissue architecture and lysing cells, and is an early step in isolating and analyzing cellular components. The method used for homogenization depends on the sample type, the amount of sample available, the analyte to be obtained, and the sensitivity of the method. These methods are broadly classified as mechanical and non-mechanical methods. Mechanical methods of tissue homogenization These methods rely on applying external physical force to disrupt...
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A Procedure for Bacterial Harvesting and Mechanical Lysis
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2025
Source: Mercier, N., et al. MS2-Affinity Purification Coupled with RNA Sequencing in Gram-Positive Bacteria. J. Vis. Exp. (2021)This video demonstrates a step-by-step procedure for harvesting bacterial cells and mechanically lysing them to release intracellular contents.
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Isolation of Endospores from an Environmental Sample by Targeted Lysis of Vegetative Cells
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2025
Source: Wunderlin, T., et al. Physical Isolation of Endospores from Environmental Samples by Targeted Lysis of Vegetative Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (2016)This video demonstrates a method to isolate endospores from an environmental sample containing both vegetative cells and various bacteria. The procedure involves filtration, mechanical disruption, and selective chemical treatment to weaken and lyse vegetative cells while preserving endospores. The final step isolates the resilient endospores through...
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Osmotic imbalance drives water movement across the plasma membrane, placing the cell under physical stress until the membrane can no longer maintain its boundary. The resulting rupture releases intracellular contents. The extent of lysis depends on how strongly the membrane is destabilized, so researchers must match the treatment to whether they want debris removed or a target fraction preserved.
Detergents destabilize the plasma membrane chemically, whereas mechanical forces disrupt it through physical stress. Both can release cellular material, but their use should reflect the downstream objective, such as preparing a fraction for analysis or recovering intracellular nucleic acids or proteins. No single approach is universally superior, so conditions must be selected for the intended sample and analysis.
Excessive membrane disruption can damage target cells and alter recovery of the nucleic acids or proteins being measured. It can also affect material used in immune-response assays or pathogen-detection workflows. Controlled conditions help preserve the desired cells and analytes, reducing the risk that sample preparation changes the result or makes the recovered fraction less representative of the original blood sample.
Centrifugation separates the material produced during lysis according to the workflow's desired fraction. It can remove cellular debris while retaining the fraction needed for analysis, rather than treating lysis as the final preparation step. This sequence connects membrane disruption with sample cleanup and supports downstream leukocyte isolation, pathogen detection, or extraction of nucleic acids and proteins.
Blood cell lysis is useful when blood must be processed into components or intracellular material for analysis. Supported applications include separating blood components, preparing samples, isolating leukocytes, detecting pathogens, and extracting nucleic acids or proteins. The appropriate workflow depends on which fraction or analyte is needed, because disruption can release contents while also affecting cell integrity or analyte recovery.
In immunology, it can support leukocyte isolation and assays that measure immune responses. In infection research, it can prepare material for pathogen detection and for nucleic acid or protein extraction. Its value comes from connecting sample preparation with the chosen readout, while controlled treatment helps avoid damaging cells or changing analyte recovery in ways that could complicate interpretation.