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Minimum Essential Medium Eagle, with Earl's salts

StableCell™, with Earle′s salts, stable glutamine, and sodium bicarbonate, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

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Minimum Essential Medium Eagle, MEM

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12352207
NACRES:
NA.75
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Product Name

StableCell™ MEM, With Earle′s salts, stable glutamine, 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

sodium pyruvate: no
HEPES: no
Hanks’ salts (2% CO2): no
NaHCO3: yes
Earle’s salts (5% CO2): yes
stable glutamine: yes
phenol red: yes
L-glutamine: no
glucose: yes

shipped in

ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

General description

Minimum Essential Medium (MEM), developed by Harry Eagle, is one of the most widely used of all synthetic cell culture media. Early attempts to cultivate normal mammalian fibroblasts and certain subtypes of HeLa cells revealed they had specific nutritional requirements that could not be met by Eagle′s Basal Medium (BME). Subsequent studies using these and other cells in culture indicated additions to BME could be made to aid growth of a wider variety of fastidious cells.

MEM, which incorporates these modifications, includes higher concentrations of amino acids so the medium more closely approximates the protein composition of cultured mammalian cells. MEM has been used for cultivation of a wide variety of cells grown in monolayers. Optional supplementation of non-essential amino acids to the formulations that incorporate either Hanks′ or Earle′s salts has broadened the usefulness of this medium.

Application

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle has been used in murine fibroblast culture for in vitro cytocompatibility testing.

Other Notes

This product lacks L-Ala; L-Asn; L-Glu; Gly; L-Pro; L-Ser and L-Gln. It is supplemented with L-Ala-L-Gln dipeptide. This provides a more stable form of glutamine for cell culture. Free amino acid L-glutamine is known to be unstable in cell culture.

Legal Information

StableCell is a trademark of Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC

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Sigma-Aldrich

M0446

StableCell™ MEM

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle With Earle′s salts, L-glutamine and sodium bicarbonate, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Sigma-Aldrich

M4655

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle With Earle′s salts, L-alanyl-glutamine, and sodium bicarbonate, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

SAFC

FG0325

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

SAFC

SAFC

51416C

Minimum Essential Medium

form

liquid

form

liquid

form

liquid

form

liquid

sterility

sterile-filtered

sterility

sterile-filtered

sterility

sterile-filtered

sterility

sterile-filtered

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

components

sodium pyruvate: no
HEPES: no
Hanks’ salts (2% CO2): no
NaHCO3: yes
Earle’s salts (5% CO2): yes
stable glutamine: yes
phenol red: yes
L-glutamine: no
glucose: yes

components

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

components

stable glutamine: yes
L-glutamine: no
phenol red: yes
sodium pyruvate: no
Earle’s salts (5% CO2): yes
HEPES: no
Hanks’ salts (2% CO2): no
glucose: yes
NaHCO3: yes

components

Earle’s salts (5% CO2): yes
L-glutamine: no

storage temp.

2-8°C

storage temp.

2-8°C

storage temp.

2-8°C

storage temp.

2-8°C

shipped in

ambient

shipped in

ambient

shipped in

ambient

shipped in

ambient

Storage Class

12 - Non Combustible Liquids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves

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M0446-500ML04061833993187

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