pressure homogenization
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pressure homogenization
or nitrogen cavitation
a method of disrupting cells that depends on equilibrating a cell suspension with a gas, e.g. nitrogen, at high pressure (up to 7 MPa) and then suddenly reducing the pressure, whereupon the gas dissolved in the cytoplasm is explosively released.
a method of disrupting cells that depends on equilibrating a cell suspension with a gas, e.g. nitrogen, at high pressure (up to 7 MPa) and then suddenly reducing the pressure, whereupon the gas dissolved in the cytoplasm is explosively released.
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