Cell Culture Media

Supplier: VWR Chemicals

Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) with Earle’s Balanced Salts is a modification of Eagle’s earlier Basal Medium (BME) which contains a higher concentration of essential nutrients. These media promote the growth of a variety of normal and transformed cells. Since they contain Earle’s Balanced Salts, they are suitable for use in atmospheres charged with CO₂ gas.

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Schneider's Drosophila medium promotes rapid growth of both primary and existing cell cultures derived from Drosophila spp and several other dipterans when supplemented with 5 to 20% heat-inactivated foetal bovine serum.

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Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) is designed to preserve and maintain the growth of a broad spectrum of mammalian cell types.

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Lymphocyte separation media is a density gradient medium for the isolation of mononuclear cells from peripheral blood, cord blood and bone marrow.

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Medium 199 was developed specifically for nutritional research of chicken fibroblasts. Today, 199 media are widely used for the maintenance of non transformed cells, vaccine and virus production and primary explants of epithelial cells. The media formulated with the Hanks salts are buffered with saline solutions designed for balancing in ambient conditions, and their use in a CO₂ incubator results in a rapid drop in pH of the culture medium.

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VWR® penicillin-streptomycin solution (100X) is a large spectrum antibiotic designed to control and destroy gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.

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RPMI are general purpose enriched media. Originally formulated for suspension cultures and monolayer cultures of human leukemic cells.

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L-Glutamine is an essential amino acid required by virtually all mammalian and insect cells grown in culture. It is a crucial component of many cell culture media and serves as a major energy source for cells in culture.

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Ham's F12 was developed for growth of primary rat hepatocytes and rat prostate epithelial cells. Also used in a clonal toxicity assay using CHO cells. It is frequently used with supplements for serum-free cultures to support the growth of cells of rodent origin, or as a cloning medium for the culture of myeloma and hybrid cells.

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McCoy’s media were originally formulated for growth and support of lymphocytes. This final modification produced a medium identical to RPMI 1629. McCoy's 5A media supports the indefinite proliferation of Walker 256 carcinoma cells. In addition, it is excellent for the propagation of leukocytes, biopsy tissues, a broad range of human and rat normal or transformed cell types, the most current primary and continuous cell lines.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

This serum replacement is effective in research situations such as studying the effects of growth factors or in the manufacturing of cell derived products.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

Rich medium for the growth of E. coli and certified for plasmid and other bacterial cultures in liquid medium.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

Murashige and Skoog Medium is widely used plant tissue culture growth medium. It has proven effective in the culture of tissue derived from monocotyledons and dicotyledons.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

Hoagland's modified basal salt mixture with macro- and micronutrients used to support to facilitate plant growth.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

High Growth Enhancement Medium is a modification of DMEM in which 3,6 g/L fructose is substituted for glucose, resulting in better pH control and higher cell yields. Fructose is metabolised slower than glucose, resulting in slower acid build up. This media is recommended for the growth and support of cells on microcarrier matrices.

Supplier: MP Biomedicals

The 1X Park and Terasaki's Modification of McCoy's 5A medium is used for the primary culture of cells from a wide range of tissues. Recommended for production of virus in primary cell cultures.