Definition of homogenate in English:
homogenate
noun həˈmɒdʒɪneɪthəˈmäjəˌnāt
Biology A suspension of cell fragments and cell constituents obtained when tissue is homogenized.
Example sentencesExamples
- Therefore, we used Western analysis to determine the relative contents of these contractile proteins in whole lung homogenates.
- The number of colonies of the three plates was added and this number was used to determine the ratio of each mutant to the wild-type control within the homogenate from each animal.
- Plasma membrane vesicles were purified from root homogenates using the sucrose gradient or two-phase partitioning procedure as previously described.
- Analysis of metabolites in whole tissue homogenates is, therefore, of limited value as this provides only an average of the contribution made by many different types of cell.
- The spectra of the two homogenates of the same tissue type from the biopsy samples of each patient were averaged to obtain a single spectrum.
- Free amino compounds were extracted from tissue homogenates according to the procedure described by Shaul and Galili.