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Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

Name: Minimum Essential Medium Eagle
Brand: SIGMA

With Hanks′ salts, 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

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Product Name

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle, With Hanks′ salts, L-glutamine and sodium bicarbonate, 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

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

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ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

Description

General description

Modification of the original MEM formulation. Earle′s salts have been replaced with Hanks′ salts. Since the bicarbonate concentration is substantially lower, this medium has a substantially reduced buffering capacity.

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This Item	M5775	M1018	M4642
Sigma-Aldrich M4780 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle	Sigma-Aldrich M5775 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle	Sigma-Aldrich M1018 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle	Sigma-Aldrich M4642 Minimum Essential Medium Eagle
sterility sterile-filtered	sterility sterile-filtered	sterility -	sterility -
technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable	technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable	technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable	technique(s) cell culture \| mammalian: suitable
form liquid	form liquid	form powder	form powder
components Earle’s salts (5% CO₂): no stable glutamine: no Hanks’ salts (2% CO₂): yes phenol red: yes NaHCO₃: yes sodium pyruvate: no HEPES: no glucose: yes L-glutamine: yes	components phenol red: yes Hanks’ salts (2% CO₂): yes L-glutamine: no sodium pyruvate: no	components phenol red: yes NaHCO₃: no HEPES: no sodium pyruvate: no Hanks’ salts (2% CO₂): yes L-glutamine: yes	components glucose: yes Hanks’ salts (2% CO₂): yes L-glutamine: yes Earle’s salts (5% CO₂): no NaHCO₃: no phenol red: yes sodium pyruvate: no stable glutamine: no HEPES: no
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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Storage Class

12 - Non Combustible Liquids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

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