Culture medium for mesenchymal stem cells
AssigneesAjinomoto Co., Inc., Kyoto University
InventorsYonghui Jin, Ikue Harata, Sho Senda, Hiroki Ozawa, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Junya Toguchida, Makoto Ikeya
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Abstract
Mesenchymal stem cells may be culture for a long period, without using any special apparatus, equipment and the like, in a medium in which seven kinds of nonessential amino acids of glycine, alanine, serine, proline, asparagine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid are reduced.
Claims10
A culture medium comprising histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine, arginine, cysteine, glutamine, tyrosine, glycine, alanine, serine, proline, asparagine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid,
- wherein said culture medium comprises components constituting basal medium, which are other than amino acid,
- wherein the concentrations of glycine, alanine, serine, proline, asparagine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid in the culture medium are less than 5 μM, less than 5 μM, less than 3 μM, less than 5 μM, less than 1 μM, less than 2 μM, and less than 3 μM, respectively,
- wherein the basal medium is selected from DMEM, IMDM (Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium), GMEM (Glasglow's MEM), RPMI-1640, α-MEM, Ham's Medium F-12, Ham's Medium F-10, Ham's Medium F12K, Medium 199, ATCC-CRCM30, DM-160, DM-201, BME, Fischer, McCoy's 5A, Leibovitz's L-15, RITC80-7, MCDB105, MCDB107, MCDB131, MCDB153, MCDB201, NCTC109, NCTC135, Waymouth's MB752/1, CMRL-1066, Williams' medium E, Brinster's BMOC-3 Medium, and a mixed medium thereof.
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