What happens to the DNA from sloughed off intestine epithelial cells when extracting bacterial DNA from mouse fecal samples?

08 August 2016 1 2K Report

I am currently using the PowerSoil DNA extraction kit from MoBio for DNA extraction from bacteria present in mouse fecal matter. I wanted to know how the sloughed off intestine epithelial cells get washed off from the sample?

Prakash Chandra

I think if you just want DNA ... and you know the microflora of intestine ... you could go for culture of these bacteria ..

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