Extracellular Vesicle Separation by Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation
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1) Extracellular Vesicles (EV) are released by cells during their normal activity. 2) For EV separation, conditioned culture medium is harvested and major contaminants removed by consecutive low speed centrifugations. 3) The cleared supernatant is concentrated by ultracentrifugation, and the resulting 100K pellet is loaded on the bottom of an iodixanol gradient. EVs float upwards and EV-enriched fractions are collected and pelleted. The final sample is rich in EVs and absent in contaminants.
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References
Pavani, K.C.. (2018) Isolation and Characterization of Functionally Active Extracellular Vesicles from Culture Medium Conditioned by Bovine Embryos In Vitro. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/1/38
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