For the time course of MBG production, 6 ml of media conditioned by JEG-3 cells for 0 (baseline), 3 or 6 hours were extracted by 80% acetonitrile using Sep-Pak C-18 reverse-phase cartridges (Waters),9 (link) and the resultant extract was fractionated on an Agilent 1100 series HPLC system using Agilent Zorbax Eclipse XDB-C18 (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA), 4.6 × 150 mm, 5 µm particle size, 80 Å column, flow rate 1ml/min, in linear (10 – 85.5 %) gradient of acetonitrile against 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) for 45 min.9 (link) Thirty 1.5-min fractions were collected and analyzed for MBG-immunoreactivity (MBG immunoassay, above).