Tissue homogenation

[sonar]

i wnat to know what is the principle of french press homogenizer? i know that it uses a motordriven piston inside a steel cylinder to develop pressure up to 40.000psi but in this instrument sample is thaken at the bottom of the steel tube and the space between the steel tube and piston is approximately 1mm or less, than where and how and at which site in the instrument cell break observed? [/b]

[Hix3r]

Wow I have never seen anything like this. Did you get an answer to your question? Also I'd like a picture about this machine. I think it's cool. Anyway if you put cells on a glass plate or something into a steel tube and then make this piston squeeze in there up to 40k psi, I think the cells would just collapse right where they are in the solution. I don't really get this though... guess that's my fault.