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R4505

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Rabbit Serum

USDA approved, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Synonym(s):

Serum from rabbit, lapine sera, lapine serum, sera, serum

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About This Item

MDL number:
MFCD00164118
UNSPSC Code:
12352207
NACRES:
NA.71

biological source

rabbit

Quality Level

500

sterility

sterile-filtered

quality

USDA approved

composition

hemoglobin (tested)

origin

USA origin

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

endotoxin, tested
 mycoplasma, tested

shipped in

dry ice

storage temp.

−20°C

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Application

Rabbit serum is used to support cultures of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease.
Rabbit Serum is used for the following applications:
  • sampling for bacteriological cultures and culture conditions
  • as a supplement in BSK-S medium in a study to evaluate the infectivity and pathogenicity of BL206 and B515 grown in BSK medium containing this product vs the medium containing Sigma rabbit serum R7136
  • light microscopy, immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry.
  • immunoelectron microscopy

Analysis Note

Endotoxin tested

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Ingo Gerhauser et al.
Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie, 65(4), 375-381 (2012-01-20)
Syrian golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) are laboratory animals increasingly used for research and toxicological studies. Despite the need for an adequate knowledge of spontaneously occurring lesions, studies investigating the background pathology of different organ systems in hamsters are lacking. The
Andrei E Samoilov et al.
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This article describes a lethal case of leptospirosis that occurred in Southern Russia. The Leptospira strain was isolated and characterized using a microscopic agglutination test, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, targeted PCR, and high-throughput sequencing. We show that molecular and mass-spectrometry methods
Guillaume Carissimo et al.
BMC genomics, 19(1), 526-526 (2018-07-11)
Anopheles mosquitoes are efficient vectors of human malaria, but it is unknown why they do not transmit viruses as well as Aedes and Culex mosquitoes. The only arbovirus known to be consistently transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes is O'nyong nyong virus
Guiqing Wang et al.
Infection and immunity, 72(11), 6702-6706 (2004-10-27)
The effects of variations in Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly (BSK) medium on the infectivity and pathogenicity of Borrelia burgdorferi clinical isolates were assessed by retrospective and prospective studies using a murine model of Lyme borreliosis. Thirty of 35 (86%) mice infected with any
Märit Pringle et al.
Veterinary microbiology, 139(3-4), 279-283 (2009-06-27)
Various ear lesions, often caused by ear biting, are common in pigs. Some herds have a high frequency of ear necrosis, a syndrome characterized by necrotic lesions along the rim of the pinna, often bilateral and sometimes resulting in loss
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