Gibco™ MarrowMAX™ Bone Marrow Medium

Description

• Gibco MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium is a fully-supplemented medium developed for the short term culture of bone marrow and other hematopoietic cells for cytogenetic studies and in vitro diagnostic procedures
• MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium features: • Superior performance • Ready-to-use format • Quality and performance testing • Unique, optimized formulation Superior performance MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium outperforms other commercially available media containing Giant Cell Tumor (GCT) conditioned media, providing consistent performance with a higher mitotic index and superior chromosomal morphology
• Ready-to-use format MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium is a frozen, 1X medium, ready to use upon thawing
• No supplementation is required
• Thawed medium can be stored at 2–8°C for up to 60 days
• Quality and performance testing Every lot of MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium is performance tested by a certified US reference cytogenetics laboratory to ensure consistently superior performance
• Bone marrow cells from the aspirate of a normal adult donor are cultured for 24 hours in MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium before measuring the mitotic index and chromosome banding resolution
• In addition, each lot must pass a sterility test prior to release
• Unique, optimized formulation MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium is an optimized RPMI 1640 medium, supplemented with Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS), gentamicin, and L-glutamine
• It also contains a novel human stromal cell conditioned medium that consists of a unique blend of hematopoietic growth factors
• MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium does not contain GCT conditioned medium
• cGMP Manufacturing and Quality System MarrowMAX Bone Marrow Medium is manufactured at a cGMP compliant facility, located in Grand Island, New York
• The facility is registered with the FDA as a medical device manufacturer and is certified to ISO 13485 standards.