Fetal Bovine Serum

Name: Fetal Bovine Serum
Brand: Merck/Sigma-Aldrich
SKU: F4135-500ML
Rating: 4.9 (45 reviews)

FBS - USA origin, Heat Inactivated, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture, suitable for insect cell culture, suitable for hybridoma

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PRODUCT INTRODUCTION
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PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) remains a popular media supplement as it provides a wide array of functions in cell culture. FBS delivers nutrients, growth and attachment factors and aids in proliferation. It also protects cells from oxidative damage and apoptosis. FBS blocks reactive oxygen species generation, which otherwise is not eliminated in serum-free media (SFM) systems.

Specifications

Biological source: bovine fetus
Quality Level: 500
Sterility: sterile-filtered
Product line: FBS Classic
Composition: Bovine IgG, ≤1 mg/mL, Hemoglobin, ≤20 mg/dL
Origin: USA origin
Technique(s): cell culture | hybridoma: suitable
cell culture | insect: suitable
cell culture | mammalian: suitable

Impurities: ≤10 EU/mL endotoxin
Shipped in: dry ice
storage temp: −20°C

Application

FBS sourced in the United States is used in a broad range of cell culture applications. FBS provides many non-defined growth promoting and survival enhancing factor to cells in culture.
Fetal Bovine Serum has been used:

as a component of Dulbecco′s Modified Eagles Media (DME, DMEM), Eagle′s Minimum Essential Medium (EMEM), Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium (RPMI-1640), α-modified eagle medium (αMEM) (MEM) and Leibovitz L-15 medium
as a component of blocking medium for treating brainstem slices
to improve attachment of dermal explants