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Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

With Earle′s salts, without ʟ-glutamine and sodium bicarbonate, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture, 10x

Synonym(s):

EMEM, MEM

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UNSPSC Code:
12352207
NACRES:
NA.71
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Product Name

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle, 10 ×, With Earle′s salts, without L-glutamine and sodium bicarbonate, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Quality Level

400

sterility

sterile-filtered

form

liquid

concentration

10 ×

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

endotoxin, tested

components

phenol red: yes
HEPES: no
Earle’s salts (5% CO2): yes
L-glutamine: no
sodium pyruvate: no
NaHCO3: no

shipped in

ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

Application

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle has been used for the formulation of collagen methacrylamide (hydrogel). It has also been used to maintain articular cartilage of bovine knee joints, which was later used for MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) study and histological analysis.
Generally used to grow attached cell lines, such as fibroblasts, in the presence of FBS, calf or horse sera. The L-glutamine and sodium bicarbonate are added to the medium after dilution to 1x and pH adjustment.

Preparation Note

Supplement with 0.292 g/L L-glutamine, 2.2 g/L sodium bicarbonate at 1×.

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Storage Class

12 - Non Combustible Liquids

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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