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Sonication Extraction of Lipid Biomarkers from Sediment
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jeff Salacup - University of Massachusetts Amherst The material comprising the living "organic" share of any ecosystem (leaves, fungi, bark, tissue; Figure 1) differs fundamentally from the material of the non-living "inorganic" share (rocks and their constituent minerals, oxygen, water, metals). Organic material contains carbon linked to a series of other carbon and hydrogen molecules (Figure 2), which distinguishes it from inorganic material. Carbon's wide valency range...
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Generation and Quantitative Analysis of Pulsed Low Frequency Ultrasound to Determine the Sonic Sensitivity of Untreated and Treated Neoplastic Cells
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2015
Selective damage of human leukemia cells can be achieved through a novel approach of applying low frequency ultrasound both with and without chemotherapeutic pretreatment of leukemic and normal hematopoietic cells.
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Low Frequency Ultrasound Application: A Method to Determine the Effect of Sonication on Human Leukemia Cells
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2023
This video describes the selective damage of human leukemia cells by using low frequency ultrasound. This application of low frequency ultrasound in a preclinical in vitro condition demonstrates that cell destruction can be attained in order to examine and compare the effects of sonication on leukemia and normal cells.
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Novel Diagnostics in Revision Arthroplasty: Implant Sonication and Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction
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2017
Differential diagnostics in painful arthroplasty is crucial for treatment success. Joint aspiration is routinely performed preoperatively. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction of the joint aspirate and the sonication fluid, a feasible tool for quick pathogen detection from these samples is described.
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Sonication-facilitated Immunofluorescence Staining of Late-stage Embryonic and Larval Drosophila Tissues In Situ
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2014
Immunostaining is an effective technique for visualizing specific cell types and proteins within tissues. By utilizing sonication, the protocol described here alleviates the need to dissect Drosophila melanogaster tissues from late-stage embryos and larvae before immunostaining. We provide an efficient methodology for the immunostaining of formaldehyde-fixed whole mount larvae.
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Acoustic cavitation creates localized fluid movement and shear when ultrasound passes through liquid. Under mild conditions, these forces can loosen or disrupt biological material without applying the more damaging treatment implied by excessive mechanical stress. This controlled balance helps produce a sample that is sufficiently mixed or opened for analysis while retaining useful biochemical components.
The main controls are ultrasonic power, pulse duration, and cooling conditions. Power and pulsing determine how strongly and how long the sample experiences acoustic effects, whereas cooling helps limit heat accumulation. Together, these settings influence whether treatment favors dispersion or gentle disruption rather than unnecessary damage. Selecting them carefully improves preservation and supports reproducible downstream sample preparation.
Limiting heat and mechanical stress helps protect proteins, membranes, and organelles from unnecessary damage during sample preparation. That preservation is important when the treated material must remain suitable for enzymatic assays, protein analysis, or purification. Mild settings therefore provide a practical compromise: they promote adequate mixing or disruption while maintaining biochemical features needed for reliable downstream measurements.
A basic workflow places the biological material in a liquid suspension, selects an appropriate ultrasonic power and pulse duration, and incorporates cooling conditions that limit heat. The treatment is then adjusted to achieve the desired degree of mixing, dispersion, or disruption. Careful control of these conditions helps produce a consistent preparation for subsequent biochemical procedures.
Mild sonication can support cell lysis, homogenization, suspension preparation, and extraction of soluble biomolecules. These uses differ in their immediate goal, but each relies on controlled acoustic effects to make biological material more uniform or accessible. The resulting preparations can then serve as inputs for assays, protein-focused analyses, or purification workflows.
By combining controlled disruption with reduced heat and mechanical damage, mild sonication helps generate preparations that are more suitable for comparison across experiments. In biochemistry, this is relevant when samples must support enzymatic assays, protein analysis, or downstream purification. Consistent selection of power, pulsing, and cooling conditions connects the preparation step with more reliable analytical outcomes.