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Definition of Agarose

1. a sugar obtained from agar [n -S]

Medical Definition of Agarose

1. This linear galactan is created by purifying agar, when it is heated and cooled, it forms a gel that is used as a support for many types of electrophoresis and immunodiffusion (agarbiose). A typical gel is about 1% agarose. Agarose is more porous than acrylamide and is sold in different grades, the lower its sulphate content, the more highly purified it is. (06 May 1997)

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Literary usage of Agarose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The agarose plate was prepared by placing 3 ml of 1% agarose (Behringwerke) solution in Medium 199 containing 10% heat inactivated fetal calf serum into 35 ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"For agarose electrophoresis, BIO-RAD has three new developments— super-purified agarose, disposable agarose gel tubes, and a new system for phenotyping ..."

3. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, SourceOECD (Online service) (1998)
"Yeast cells containing the desired YAC are embedded in agarose blocks. ... The YAC-containing band is excised, embedded in a 4 per cent agarose gel and ..."

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