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A MICROHOMOGENIZER FOR INSECT BRAIN1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Robert P. Bodnaryk
Robert P. Bodnaryk
Affiliation:
Agriculture Canada, Research Station, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2M9
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Analysis of neurotransmitter levels in individual insect brains has been hampered by the unavailability of a suitable tissue homogenizer. Commercially-available homogenizers are expensive, often fragile, and generally ill-designed and cumbersome for handling microlitre volumes. This report describes the fabrication of an efficient, inexpensive microhomogenizer suitable for routine processing of small amounts of soft tissue using an idea suggested by Meek (1976).

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Articles
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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 4 , April 1979 , pp. 525 - 526
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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References

Meek, J.L. 1976. Application of inexpensive equipment for high pressure liquid chromatography to assays for taurine, gamma-amino butyric acid, and 5-hydroxytryptophan. Anal. Chem. 48: 375379.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed