Pluronic® F-68 is a non-ionic surfactant in cell culture used to control shear forces in suspension cultures against possible damage during freezing and thawing, transfer and stirring. It can also be used to reduce foaming in stirred cultures and reduce cell attachment to glass. …

Hexane is used in laboratory to extract oil and grease contaminants from water and soil for analysis.

L-glutamine is an essential amino acid that is a crucial component of culture media that serves as a major energy source for cells in culture. L-glutamine is very stable as a dry powder and as a frozen solution. In liquid media or stock solutions, however, L-glutamine degrades relatively rapidly.…

Sodium pyruvate is used by cells as an easily accessible carbohydrate source. Additionally, it is involved with amino acid metabolism and initiates the Kreb′s cycle. The 100 mM solution should be diluted 1:100 for most cell culture. The use of sodium pyruvate in Wallen fermentation medium to…

TRITON X-114 is used in biochemical applications to solubilize and separate proteins due to its low cloud point (23 °C). At temperatures above the cloud point, detergent solutions separate into aqueous and detergent-enriched phases. This makes Triton X-114 particularly useful in…

Glutaraldehyde is a bifunctional protein cross-linking reagent, reacting with NH2 groups to form Schiff's bases. Sporicidal agent. Glutaraldehyde reacts through cross-linking to impart water resistance to protein and polyhydroxy compounds. It is also a reducing agent for photochemicals. In…

RPMI 1640 was originally developed by Moore and his colleagues at Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI). It was based on the RPMI 1630 line of media which utilized a bicarbonate buffering system and alterations in the amounts of amino acids and vitamins. A Dutch Modification of RPMI 1640 is also…

CELLect Gold is collected from a U.S.D.A. regulated and monitored abattoir by technicians who work "on-site" where the fetal blood is aseptically collected via cardiac puncture. This raw material is transported to the production facility where it undergoes sterilization via filtration…

Trypan Blue is a blue acid dye with a strong affinity for cellulose containing substrates such as cotton; less affinity for proteinaceous materials. Trypan blue solution may be used in trypan blue based cytotoxitiy and proliferation assays.

TMB is a chromogenic substrate for Horse Radish Peroxidase (HRP). MP Biolomedicals' TMB Solution is a convenient, non toxic and ready to use stable chromogen solution suitable for peroxidase and pseudo-peroxidase reactions in ELISA, it provides consistent performance and sensitivity to deliver…

Ammonium acetate is a chemical compound which is derived from the reaction of ammonia and acetic acid. Ammonium acetate is volatile at low pressures. Because of which it has been used to replace cell buffers with non-volatile salts, in preparing samples for mass spectrometry. It is used as a buffer…

IGEPAL™ CA-630 is a homologous series of octylphenoxypoly(ethyleneoxy)ethanols used for the solubilizing and isolation of membrane proteins. The Igepal CA surfactants are all derived from the same hydrophobic starting material, octylphenol. By increasing the amount of hydrophilic…

Donor Horse Serum is suitable for use in diagnostic assays, as a supplement in mycoplasma growth and assay media and for culturing hematopoietic stem cells and neuronal cells. This serum is processed from whole blood collected from a controlled herd of young horses. Each animal is routinely…

Heat Inactivated. This serum is collected from whole blood from healthy individuals.

Acetone is a commonly used material in the manufacture of various chemicals like methyl isobutyl ketone, mesityl oxide, diacetone alcohol, acetic acid (via the ketene process), iodoform, and bromoform. Other products where acetone is utilized in manufacture include rayon, photographic films, and…

Goat serum is a suitable alternative to fetal bovine serum in a wide range of cell culture applications such as the isolation and identification of viruses produced in a variety of primary cell lines. This serum is produced from whole blood collected from healthy adult animals.

N,N,N',N'-Tetramethylethylenediamin is a tertiary amine base. N,N,N',N'-Tetramethylethylenediamine is used to catalyze the formation of free radicals from ammonium persulfate or riboflavin. The free radicals will cause acrylamide and bis-acrylamide to polymerize to form a gel…

2,2'-Azino-bis-(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic Acid) Solution is oxidized to a radical action showing absorption maxima at 820 nm, 734 nm, 650 nm and 405 nm, in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and HRP. The latter frequency demonstrates a significant molar extinction coefficient and is…

Tweens® are a series of nonionic surfactants derived from sorbitan esters. They are soluble or dispersible in water but differ widely in organic and oil solubilities. Used as oil-in-water emulsifiers in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, cleaning compounds, etc. Tween® 80 has been widely used…

Isopropyl alcohol is widely used in chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology. Industrial applications include its use in antifreezes, quick-drying oils, and quick-drying inks, and as a solvent for gums, shellac, and essential oils. Isopropyl alcohol has been utilized as a solvent in the…

Human pooled serum is used as a media component to neutralize cell free virus. It's used as a reagent in liposome binding assay and in preparation of sperm. This serum is obtained from pooled, normal clotted human blood.

Hexadecane (n-Hexadecane) is an aliphatic long-chain hydrocarbon. It is a reference fuel with the cetane number 100 and is employed in determining the cetane number of diesel fuels. The mechanism of the oxidation of hexadecane in the gas-phase has been described. The density, speed of sound,…

Triton® X-100 is a alkylaryl polyether alcohol. It is a nonionic surfactant prepared by the reaction of octylphenol with ethylene oxide. The number ("-100") relates only indirectly to the number of ethylene oxide units in the structure. Triton X-100 is a non-ionic surfactant and…

Dimethyl sulfoxide is a dipolar, aprotic solvent. Has been shown to accelerate strand renaturation (1-10% concentration) and is believed to give the nucleic acid thermal stability against depurination. By heating the solid form to approximately 30°C, the product can be melted without harming…

Percoll® is a medium for density gradient centrifugation of cells, viruses and subcellular particles. Percoll® is composed of colloidal silica coated with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), which renders the material completely non-toxic and ideal for use with biological materials. Centrifugation…

Rabbit serum is a component of blood obtained from a rabbit that contains blood plasma without fibrinogen or other clotting factors. Rabbit Serum Combine with BSA to use as a blocking serum in immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry. In immunohistochemistry, antibodies are used to detect…

Ammonium 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…

Glycerol is used both in sample preparation and gel formation for polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Glycerol (5-10%) increases the density of a sample so that the sample will layer at the bottom of a gel’s sample well. Glycerol is also used to aid in casting gradient gels and as a protein…

Triton® X-100 is a alkylaryl polyether alcohol. It is a nonionic surfactant prepared by the reaction of octylphenol with ethylene oxide. The number ("-100") relates only indirectly to the number of ethylene oxide units in the structure. The principal uses of Triton® X-100 is…

The antibiotics penicillin and streptomycin are used to prevent bacterial contamination of cell cultures due to their effective combined action against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. This solution contains 17,000 - 21,000 units/mL of penicillin and 18.0 - 23.0 mg/mL of streptomycin. …

1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol is polar and exhibits strong hydrogen bonding properties enabling it to dissolve substances that serve as hydrogen-bond acceptors. 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol is a polar solvent of high ionizing power and facilitates Friedel–Crafts-type reactions, using…

SDS is an anionic detergent used to solubilize and denature protein for Protein Electrophoresis & Blotting. SDS has also been used in large-scale phenol extraction of RNA to promote the dissociation of protein from nucleic acids when extracting from biological material. Surfactant used for…