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percoll

percoll noun: a colloidal suspension of silica coated with PVP, used in the density gradient centrifugation of cells.

Noun

percoll (uncountable)

  1. A colloidal suspension of silica coated with PVP, used in the density gradient centrifugation of cells.
    • In this research, we used a percoll/sucrose density gradient approach for plasma membrane enrichment combined with TMT technology using nano liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry analysis to identify specifically differentially expressed proteins in GC tissues compared with adjacent normal...2015 May 7, Wen Gao et al., “Plasma membrane proteomic analysis of human Gastric Cancer tissues: revealing flotillin 1 as a marker for Gastric Cancer”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI

Questions about percoll

What does percoll mean?
Percoll means a colloidal suspension of silica coated with PVP, used in the density gradient centrifugation of cells.
What part of speech is percoll?
Percoll is a noun.

Words near percoll in the dictionary

  1. percolations
  2. percolative
  3. percolatively
  4. percolator
  5. percolators
  6. percoll
  7. percolozoan
  8. percolozoans
  9. percomorph
  10. percomorphacean
  11. percomorphaceans

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