High-Performance & High-Capacity Centrifuges Catalog

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Reference

Quick-Reference Guide to Centrifuge Selection (continued)

Materials to Be Isolated

Specific Application

Centrifuges Typically Used

J6-MI

Avanti J-HC

Avanti J

Preparative Centrifugation Lysates/Homogenates

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Clearing debris and large particles

Nucleic Acids DNA

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Alcohol precipitation

Phenol/CHC1 3

extraction

Size fractionation in sucrose gradients

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Minipreps in 96-well plates

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Spin columns

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RNA

Phenol/CHC1 3

extraction

Alcohol precipitation Lithium precipitation

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Cells

Isolation of mononuclear cells on

Ficoll-Hypaque Pelleting bacteria

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Pelleting mammalian cells Elutriation of viable cells

Other density gradient separations

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Viruses

Pelleting

PEG precipitates

Density gradient isolations

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Blood

Plasma preparation Blood-cell products

Beckman Coulter High Performance Centrifuges

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