Mechanical Disruption for High-Throughput Fatty Acid Extraction from Animal Tissue Samples

The mechanical homogenization for extraction of fatty acids is traditionally performed with an Ultra-Turrax in a buffer solution. However, both the purification and the slow sample preparation process in the analytical laboratory are labour-intensive. This method is no longer suitable for high sample throughput. This application note demonstrates that the Geno/Grinder 2000 is well suited for cell disruption of muscle and internal organs, i.e. liver.