Cell culture media and reagents

For cell culture, Greiner Bio-One offers standard and filter cap cell culture flasks with growth areas of four different sizes. Suspension culture flasks complete the range in another sizes.They are made of high-grade polystyrene. The special design of our cell culture flasks makes it possible to efficiently reach the cell lawn with a cell scraper, whilst still providing optimal access with a pipette. The special neck
design reduces the risk of wetting the inside of the cap with medium, thus providing additional protection against contamination. The stacking rim on the top of the flasks ensures firm standing and easy stackability in the incubator.

Properties:

• Improved cell adhesion through physical surface treatment
• Cell culture flasks with standard screw cap (without filter)
• Canted neck
• Graduation on both sides
• Sterile and user-friendly packaging
• 25 cm², 75 cm² and 175 cm² growth areas
• High and flat design of the 175 cm² cell culture flask for variability of media volume

The DMEM medium is a modification of the BME which contains a higher concentration of amino acids, vitamins and other additives. DMEM is for supporting and maintaining a vast range of mammalian cell types. There are two types of DMEM: one with a high glucose content (4.5g/L), and the other with a low glucose content (1.0g/L). The DMEM low glucose has been developed for the culture of mouse embryonic cells.

Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) with Earle’s Balanced Salts is a modification of Eagle’s earlier Basal Medium (BME) which contains a higher concentration of essential nutrients. These media promote the growth of a variety of normal and transformed cells. Since they contain Earle’s Balanced Salts, they are suitable for use in atmospheres charged with CO2 gas.

RPMI are general purpose enriched media with extensive applications for a broad spectrum of mammalian and hybridoma cells, including human myeloma, mouse hybridoma, human leukocytes, and B and T lymphocytes. It was originally formulated for suspension cultures and monolayer culture of human leukemia cells.

The DMEM Ham’s F12 offers excellent performance for certain epithelial, endothelial and granulose cell types. With proper supplementation, it is a highly successful basic media for serum free cell culture.

Ham's F12 was originally developed for serum-free clonal growth of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, lung cells and mouse L-cells. It is the medium of choice for supporting cells from rodents (especially rabbit and rat) and has proven to be an excellent
cloning medium for the culture of myeloma and hybrid cells (hybridomas).

Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) is a modification of Eagle’s earlier medium Basal Medium Eagle (BME). This MEM w/ Hanks’ Salts formulation contains Hank’s salts for use without CO2.

Protect your cell lines from contamination by foreign organisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses and/or use the antibiotics for selection after transfection.
Most antibiotics suppress the growth of micro-organisms by blocking an anabolic pathway.
Nanomycopulitine actively kills bacteria, including mycoplasma, in all three stages of development without interfering with the eukaryotic metabolism.