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Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

HEPES modification, with Earle′s salts and sodium bicarbonate, without ʟ-glutamine, 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, HEPES Modification, with Earle′s salts, 25 mM HEPES and sodium bicarbonate, without L-glutamine, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

sterility

sterile-filtered

form

liquid

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

endotoxin, tested

pH

>7.2

components

L-glutamine: no
phenol red: yes
HEPES: 25 mM
sodium pyruvate: no
Earle’s salts (5% CO2): yes
NaHCO3: yes

shipped in

ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

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General description

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle comprises sugar, inorganic salts, water-soluble vitamins and essential amino acids. It is widely used as a media formulation for many cell culture studies.

Application

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle has been used for culturing primordial follicles and ovary tissues, human skin fibroblast cells, human colonic epithelial cell line LS174T and hippocampal tissue slices.

Reconstitution

Supplement with 0.292 g/L L-glutamine.

Other Notes

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Storage Class Code

10 - Combustible liquids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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