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If you want to study, say, the enzymes present in the liver, the first thing you have to do is obtain fresh liver tissue. This is done at the abattoir immediately after an animal has been slaughtered. The tissue is transported into the laboratory on ice to minimise proteolytic damage.
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Buxbaum, E. (2011). Homogenisation and Fractionisation of Cells and Tissues. In: Biophysical Chemistry of Proteins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7251-4_11
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