Preparation of High Serum for A1 cells

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