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McCoy’s 5A Medium

With sodium bicarbonate, without ʟ-glutamine, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Synonym(s):

5A basal medium

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UNSPSC Code:
12352207
NACRES:
NA.75
EC Number:
200-655-4
MDL number:
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Product Name

McCoy′s 5A Medium, Modified, with sodium bicarbonate, without L-glutamine, liquid, sterile-filtered, suitable for cell culture

Quality Level

sterility

sterile-filtered

form

liquid

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

endotoxin, tested

components

L-glutamine: no
NaHCO3: 2.2 g/L
glucose: 3.0 g/L
phenol red: 0.011 g/L

shipped in

ambient

storage temp.

2-8°C

General description

McCoy′s 5A Medium is suitable for the primary culture of cells from a wide range of tissue. It is recommended for the production of viruses in primary cell cultures.

Application

McCoy′s 5A Medium has been used to maintain:

  • G-361 melanoma cells;
  • 87-MG cells
  • human colon carcinoma cell line HCT116

Biochem/physiol Actions

McCoy′s 5A Medium has been originally developed to support liver tumor cells by modification of the amino acids found in BME. This formulation has also been used to support the growth of primary cultures of bone marrow, skin, gingiva, kidney, omentum, adrenals, lung, spleen, rat embryos, and other cell types.

Preparation Note

Supplement with 0.22 g/L L-glutamine.


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Storage Class

12 - Non Combustible Liquids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

Regulatory Information

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Articles

McCoy's 5A Modified Media Formulation


A-P Sappino et al.
Oncogenesis, 1, e7-e7 (2012-01-01)
The p53 tumor-suppressor protein has a key role in the induction of cellular senescence, an important barrier to cancer development. However, very little is known about the physiological mediators of cellular senescence induced by p53. CEACAM1 is an immunoglobulin superfamily
Roman A Perez et al.
Journal of tissue engineering, 5, 2041731414543965-2041731414543965 (2014-11-11)
Developing appropriate cell culturing techniques to populate scaffolds has become a great challenge in tissue engineering. This work describes the use of spinner flask dynamic cell cultures to populate hydroxyapatite microcarriers for bone tissue engineering. The microcarriers were obtained through
Huw D Summers et al.
ACS nano, 7(7), 6129-6137 (2013-06-19)
Assessing dose in nanoparticle-cell interactions is inherently difficult due to a complex multiplicity of possible mechanisms and metrics controlling particle uptake. The fundamental unit of nanoparticle dose is the number of particles internalized per cell; we show that this can



Global Trade Item Number

SKUGTIN
M8403-24X500ML04061834063049
M8403-500ML04061837847417
M8403-6X500ML04061834063056