Gibco™ Neurobasal™-A Medium

Description

• Neurobasal™-A Medium is a basal medium formulated to meet the special cell culture requirements of post-natal and adult brain neuronal cells when used with GIBCO™ B-27™ Supplement
• Neurobasal™-A Medium can be used to grow neuronal cells from hippocampus, cortex and other regions of the brain
• Neurobasal™-A Medium allows for both long and short term maintenance of homogeneous populations of neuronal cells without the need of an astrocyte feeder layer
• Add Your Own Supplements All Neurobasal™ media contain no L-glutamine, L-glutamic acid, or aspartic acid
• Neurobasal™ media must be supplemented with 0.5 mM L-glutamine or GlutaMAX™-I Supplement and either a serum-free supplement (such as B-27™ Supplement or N-2 Supplement ), or with serum
• For initial plating, you should add 25μM glutamic acid
• Quality Control Testing All Neurobasal™ media are tested for pH, osmolality, endotoxin, and the absence of bacterial and fungal contamination
• The osmolality of Neurobasal™-A was demonstrated to be optimal for postnatal and adult CNS neurons
• Neurobasal™-A Medium contains Phenol Red
• If Phenol Red will interfere with your applications, we also provide Neurobasal™-A Medium Minus Phenol Red
• Neurobasal™-A Medium is optimized for post-natal and adult brain neurons
• For growing pre-natal and embryonic neurons, we provide Neurobasal™ Medium
• See the entire Neurobasal™ product line
• Learn more about our neural cell culture products
• For Research Use Only
• Not intended for any animal or human therapeutic or diagnostic use.