Minimum Essential Medium Eagle

With Earle′s salts and sodium bicarbonate, without L-glutamine, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Synonym(s):

EMEM, MEM

Properties

Quality Level

200
400

sterility

sterile-filtered

form

liquid

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

endotoxin, tested

components

phenol red: yes
sodium pyruvate: no
L-glutamine: no
HEPES: no
NaHCO₃: yes
Earle’s salts (5% CO₂): yes

shipped in

ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

Description

General description

Minimum Essential Medium Eagle (MEM) is one of the most widely used synthetic cell culture media. It includes higher concentrations of amino acids so the medium more closely approximates the protein composition of cultured mammalian cells. MEM has been used for the cultivation of a wide variety of cells grown in monolayers and attached cell lines, such as fibroblasts, in the presence of fetal bovine serum (FBS), calf, or horse sera.