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Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

Name: Minimum Essential Medium Eagle
Brand: SIGMA

Alpha Modification, with sodium bicarbonate and ʟ-glutamine, without nucleosides, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Synonym(s):

αMEM, MEM

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UNSPSC Code:

12352207

NACRES:

NA.75

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Product Name

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle, Alpha Modification, With sodium bicarbonate and L-glutamine, without ribonucleosides and deoxyribonucleosides, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Quality Segment

400

sterility

sterile-filtered

form

liquid

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

Endotoxin, tested

components

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

shipped in

ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

Description

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.

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This Item	M0450	M8042	M2279
Sigma-Aldrich M0200 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle	Sigma-Aldrich M0450 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle	Sigma-Aldrich M8042 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle	Sigma-Aldrich M2279 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle
form liquid	form liquid	form liquid	form liquid
technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable	technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable	technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable	technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable
sterility sterile-filtered	sterility sterile-filtered	sterility sterile-filtered	sterility sterile-filtered
components phenol red: 0.011 g/L glucose: 1.0 g/L L-glutamine: 0.292 g/L NaHCO₃: 2.2 g/L	components glucose: 1.0 g/L L-glutamine: 0.292 g/L phenol red: 0.011 g/L NaHCO₃: 2.2 g/L	components Hanks’ salts (2% CO₂): no glucose: yes sodium pyruvate: yes phenol red: yes HEPES: no L-glutamine: no stable glutamine: no Earle’s salts (5% CO₂): yes NaHCO₃: yes	components phenol red: yes sodium pyruvate: no L-glutamine: no HEPES: no NaHCO₃: yes Earle’s salts (5% CO₂): yes
shipped in ambient	shipped in ambient	shipped in ambient	shipped in ambient
storage temp. 2-8°C	storage temp. 2-8°C	storage temp. 2-8°C	storage temp. 2-8°C

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12 - Non Combustible Liquids

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