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Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

Alpha Modification, with nucleosides, ʟ-glutamine, and sodium bicarbonate, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Synonym(s):

EMEM, MEM

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UNSPSC Code:
12352207
NACRES:
NA.75

product name

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle, Alpha Modification, With ribonucleosides, L-glutamine, deoxyribonucleosides and sodium bicarbonate, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Quality Level

400

sterility

sterile-filtered

form

liquid

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

Endotoxin, tested

components

glucose: 1.0 g/L
L-glutamine: 0.292 g/L
phenol red: 0.011 g/L
NaHCO3: 2.2 g/L

shipped in

ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

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General description

Minimum Essential Medium (MEM), developed by Harry Eagle, is one of the most widely used of all synthetic cell culture media. This is the most enriched variation of the MEM formulation offered. It contains all 21 normal amino acids, some at increased concentrations. In addition, it contains 5 additional vitamins. See formulation for details. Often used in cytogenetic analysis when supplemented with FBS.

Pictograms

Health hazard
GHS08

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

H334

Precautionary Statements

P261 - P284 - P501

Hazard Classifications

Resp. Sens. 1

Storage Class Code

12 - Non Combustible Liquids

WGK

WGK 2

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Optimization of chemically defined cell culture media-replacing fetal bovine serum in mammalian in vitro methods
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Toxicology in vitro, 24(4), 1053-1063 (2010)

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