Preparation of High Serum for A1 cells
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For 400 ml
FCS 40 ml
Eagle’s MEM 252 ml
DdH2O 100 ml
Pen/ Strep 4 ml
Glutamin 4 ml
Insulin (stock: 1mg/ ml) 4 ml
- grow at 25ºC in 2% CO2
- if you want to grow without CO2, then substitute L-15 for the MEM
- passage once per week 1:3
- wash with APBS (100 ml PBS + 25 ml ddH2O)
- trypsinize with TE
- stop with media
- centrifuge cells at 100 rpm 3 minutes
to make myotubes:
- wash cells 1x with APBS
- put cells in 0.5% FCSmedia
- wait 3 days