MP Biomedicals Lab & Chemical Salts
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Zinc Chloride
MP BiomedicalsZinc chloride is a widely used reagent in various industrial processes. These include textile finishing, the etching of metals, the manufacture of parchment paper, and the preparation of galvanizing, soldering, and tinning fluxes. Zinc chloride is also used in organic chemical synthesis, such as in…
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Aluminum Sulfate Hydrate
MP BiomedicalsAluminum sulfate hydrate is a hydrated aluminum salt. Aluminum sulfate is widely used in oil and fat processing, paper manufacturing and as a flocculant for water treatment. The kinetics of its dehydration by thermal decomposition has been investigated. It is one of the components of hematoxylin…
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Hydroxynaphthol Blue, ACS
MP BiomedicalsHydroxynaphthol blue is an azo dye. Synonyms: (2-naphtholazo-3, 6-disulfonic acid)-2-naphthol-4-sulfonic acid trisodium salt, calcium indicator on sodium chloride CAS Number: 165660-27-5 Molecular Formula: …
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Potassium Sodium Tartrate Tetrahydrate
MP BiomedicalsPotassium sodium tartrate is a double salt. Potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate has been used in organic synthesis to break up emulsions in aqueous workups. The compound is an ingredient of Fehling’s solution and Biuret reagent and is used in detection of aldose and ketose functional…
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Ammonium Bicarbonate
MP BiomedicalsAmmonium bicarbonate is an inorganic salt commonly used in the food industry. It can be generated by the interaction of gaseous carbon dioxide and aqueous ammonia. The addition of ammonium bicarbonate to microbial fuel cells (MFCs) has been reported to improve its functioning by altering the…
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Cesium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsCesium chloride is used for the preparation of electrically conducting glasses. Used to make solutions for the separation of RNA and DNA, virus/phage by density gradient centrifugation.
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Ferric Ammonium Citrate
MP BiomedicalsFerric Ammonium Citrate is supplemented to the growth media as a source of iron for the micro-organism to be analysed.
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Cesium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsCesium chloride , an inorganic compound, is an important source of cesium ions in a variety of applications. Its crystal structure forms a major structural type where each cesium ion is coordinated by 8 chlorine ions. Cesium chloride occurs naturally in mineral waters and as an impurity in…
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Potassium Acetate
MP BiomedicalsPotassium acetate is used as a buffer in molecular biology research, notably in the isolation of DNA. Potassium acetate may be utilized in the isolation of RNA intermediates and products from in vitro splicing reactions performed with HeLa cell nuclear extract. Potassium acetate has been used to…
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Potassium Iodide
MP BiomedicalsPotassium Iodide is known as Potassium Salt of Hydriodic Acid [HI], available in white crystalline powder form. It is a mild reducing agent and can be easily oxidized to Iodine by powerful oxidizing agent like chlorine. With elemental iodine it forms I3 (tri iodide), the salts of tri iodide are…
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Sodium Hydroxide
MP BiomedicalsA caustic reagent which is typically used to neutralize acids and prepare sodium salts of reagents. Sodium hydroxide is a common reagent for the adjustment of pH in buffers. Sodium hydroxide is used in Maxam-Gilbert DNA sequencing technique, in RNA gel blot procedure for simultaneous transfer…
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Ammonium Acetate
MP BiomedicalsAmmonium acetate is a widely used reagent in molecular biology and chromatography. Its applications include the purification and precipitation of DNA and protein crystallization. It is commonly used in HPLC and MS analysis of various compounds, such as oligosaccharides, proteins and peptides.
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Coenzyme A Trilithium Salt Dihydrate
MP BiomedicalsCoenzyme A is an essential cofactor in enzymatic acetyl transfer reactions. Facilitates removal of lipid peroxides by increasing mobilization of fatty acids Promote repair of plasma membranes by activating phospholipid synthesis The principal biologically active forms of pantothenic…
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Potassium Phosphate Dibasic Trihydrate
MP BiomedicalsPotassium phosphate is a reagent with high buffering capacity. It occurs in several forms: monobasic, dibasic, and tribasic (K3PO4). Most pH neutral potassium phosphate buffer solutions consist of mixtures of the monobasic and dibasic forms to varying degrees, depending on the desired pH. …
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Sodium Selenite
MP BiomedicalsSodium selenite is commonly used as a source of selenium in biological research, where selenium is an essential trace element that is normally provided by serum. Selenium is present in selenoproteins such as glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase, which contain the selenium analog of…
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Potassium chloride
MP BiomedicalsPotassium chloride is a salt commonly used in the preparation of phosphate buffered saline and for the extraction and solubilization of proteins. It is a good potassium source. Also used in the hypotonic KCl-propidium iodide protocol for univariate analysis of metaphase chromosomes ; dissociation…
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N-(1-Naphthyl)Ethylene-Diamine Dihydrochloride
MP BiomedicalsN-(1-Naphthyl)ethylenediamine, dihydrochoride is used for colorimetric determination of sulfonamide in blood. It is used for spectrophotometric determiniation of nitrite and nitrate. It is also used as a coupling agent for the spectrophotometric determination of aminophenols, phenylenediamines,…
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Potassium Ferricyanide
MP BiomedicalsPotassium ferricyanide is the chemical compound with the formula K3[Fe(CN)6]. This bright red salt contains the octahedrally coordinated [Fe(CN)6]3- ion. It is soluble in water and its solution shows some green-yellow fluorescence. Potassium ferricyanide is used as an oxidizing agent to remove…
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Magnesium Sulfate Heptahydrate
MP BiomedicalsMagnesium sulfate is a common pharmaceutical preparation of magnesium, commonly known as Epsom salts. Magnesium sulfate is the main preparation of intravenous magnesium. Magnesium has a variety of biological roles in enzymology, cell membrane and wall structural integrity, muscle cell…
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Potassium Iodide
MP BiomedicalsPotassium Iodide is known as Potassium Salt of Hydriodic Acid [HI]. Its Ionic form is K+ I-, and iodide ion being mild reducing agent, it can be easily oxidized to Iodine by powerful oxidizing agent like chlorine. Potassium iodide is often used as a fluorescence quencher. The use of KI to…
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Sodium acetate
MP BiomedicalsSodium Acetate is used as a buffer in the buffering range of pH 3.6-5.6.
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Magnesium Sulfate
MP BiomedicalsMagnesium sulfate is used in chemistry and molecular biology as a source of magnesium ions. Magnesium has a variety of biological roles in enzymology, cell membrane and wall structural integrity, muscle cell physiology, and nucleic acid structure. Magnesium is an essential co-factor in many…
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Potassium Phosphate Monobasic
MP BiomedicalsPotassium phosphate is a reagent with high buffering capacity. It occurs in several forms: monobasic, dibasic and tribasic (K3PO4). Most pH neutral potassium phosphate buffer solutions consist of mixtures of the monobasic and dibasic forms to varying degrees, depending on the desired pH. …
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Calcium Chloride Dihydrate
MP BiomedicalsCalcium Chloride is a salt of calcium and chloride. It behaves as a typical ionic halide, and is solid at room temperature. Calcium chloride is a commonly used reagent in biochemistry. It plays important roles in many biological processes, including signal transduction, muscle contraction, and…
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Sodium Metabisulfite
MP BiomedicalsSodium metabisulfite is an antioxidant reducing agent, with antimicrobial and antifungal properties. Gastric tissue studies report that sodium metabisulfite can augment lipid peroxidation and apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. Sodium metabisulfite is used as an active ingredient in campden…
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Ammonium Sulfide Solution
MP BiomedicalsAmmonium sulfide solution (aqueous ammonium sulfide) is a 20% solution in water. Ammonium sulfide is an inorganic salt with a sulfurous odor, which is commonly used in the food industry as a flavoring agent. The influence of ammonium sulfide treatment on (100)GaAs (gallium arsenide) surfaces has…
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Metformin Hydrochloride
MP Biomedicals1,1-Dimethylbiguanide hydrochloride (metformin) is a strong base. It forms well defined salts and possessing excellent coordination capacity with transition metals, forming highly colored bidentate chelate complexes. Metformin (MET) exists in various forms: diprotonated (H2MET)2+ in strong acidic…
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Lanthanum Chloride, Hydrated
MP BiomedicalsLanthanum chloride is used to precipitate phosphate from solutions. Lanthanum chloride is also used in biochemical research to block the activity of divalent cation channels, mainly calcium channels. Calcium channel blocker.
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Potassium Ferrocyanide Trihydrate
MP BiomedicalsPotassium ferrocyanide trihydrate is a salt of the Fe(CN)64- ferrocyanide ion. Ferrocyanide is a reducing iron species, being oxidized from ferrous Fe(II) to ferric Fe(III). Potassium ferrocyanide is used to determine the concentration of potassium permanganate, a compound often used in…
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Calcium Phosphate Monobasic
MP BiomedicalsCalcium Phosphate Monobasic is mainly used in fertilizers, as acidulant in baking powders and in wheat flours, mineral supplement for foods and feeds, in enameling. Phosphorus is an essential nutrient and therefore is a common component of agricultural fertilizers. Calcium dihydrogen phosphate is…
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Ferrous Sulfate Heptahydrate
MP BiomedicalsFerrous sulfate heptahydrate is a reagent used in the manufacturing of iron compounds, in electroplating baths, aluminium etching, process engraving and lithography, and in redox polymerisation. It is used as a reducing agent in chemical processes, leather dyes and writing inks. Also, it is a…