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light source j , located in a dark room. Two filters k matching the excitation (blue-violet<br />

filter centered at 407 nm) and emission (a yellow emission long pass filter with a cut-on<br />

wavelength of 515 nm) characteristics of NBD C 6 -cermide were used. A gain of 1.0000,<br />

a target intensity of 30%, and an exposure time of 53.3 ms were selected. In order to be<br />

analyzed, the image of the each tube following ultracentrifugation was converted to a<br />

density profile using a commercially available software program. l A tube coordinate<br />

scale was established where 0.0 mm is the top of the tube and 34.0 mm is the bottom of<br />

the tube. 281 The average intensity was then plotted as a function of the tube coordinate.<br />

The ultracentrifugation method described above has been shown to identify 11<br />

distinct density lipoprotein fractions in human serum (TRL, 5 LDL fractions, and 5 HDL<br />

fractions). This separation is based solely on the density characteristics of the lipoprotein<br />

fractions and not on their functional properties. Therefore, this method was used to<br />

develop lipoprotein fingerprinting in canine serum based on lipoprotein densities alone.<br />

Density ranges were based on those previously published for humans by several<br />

authors. 282 Specifically, the 11 fractions and their corresponding densities (d) were as<br />

follows: chylomicrons and VLDL (d

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