Category: Cell Culture Maintenance

T-225 Flasks for Cell Culture

T-225 flasks are available from different suppliers in both ventilated and non-ventilated formats. They are useful when you need a…

T-175 flasks for cell culture

T-175 flasks are available from different suppliers in both ventilated and non-ventilated formats. They are useful when you need a…

T-75 Flasks for Cell Culture

T-75 flasks are available from different suppliers in both ventilated and non-ventilated formats. They are useful when you need a…

AGS Cell Line: Culture Media

Various culture media have been used to maintain the AGS cell line in culture and for specific experimental procedures. A 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS)-supplemented RPMI medium is the most popular medium used by many researchers to maintain AGS cells in culture. Some have also used 10% FBS-supplemented DMEM. ATCC suggests Ham’s F12K Medium supplemented with 10% FBS. A list of base media used for AGS cell line, experiment-specific supplements, culture conditions, purpose, and references are given in the table below.

Handling and Aliquoting Frozen Stock of Serum

The serum is commercially supplied in different sizes with 500 ml being the most common size. Since repeated freezing and…

Preparing Laminar Flow Hood for Cell Culture Work

Laminar flow hood (Class II) provides a sterile environment for handling cell culture. To make the laminar flow hood ready…

Protocol – Heat Inactivation of Serum

Overview Heat inactivation of serum refers to the process which involves treatment of serum at a higher temperature to inactivate…

Protocol – Feeding Suspension Culture (Complete Replacement of Medium)

Complete replacement of culture medium from suspension culture involves cell harvesting by centrifugation and resuspension of the cell pellet in fresh growth medium. This method is ideally the best way to feed suspension culture and is often used when a. you observe dead or sick cells/suspended particles in culture; b. medium color (phenol red-containing medium) has turned yellow very quickly; c. you can not afford cell loss. Complete replacement of culture medium is ideally the best way to feed suspension culture. Since this procedure takes time and involves an additional centrifugation step to harvest cells, often researchers partially replace the medium that takes just a few minutes. However, partial medium replacement is associated with the loss of cells from the culture.

Protocol – Feeding Suspension Culture (Partial Replacement of Medium)

Replacement of culture medium from suspension culture is a bit tricky job as cells float in the medium. Ideally, cells are harvested from the medium by centrifugation and then resuspended in a fresh culture medium. However, in practice, a part of the culture medium is replaced with a fresh culture medium without harvesting the cells. This procedure is associated with the loss of cells.

Protocol – Feeding Adherent Culture

Feeding adherent culture involves replacing the old consumed medium with the fresh growth medium. The purpose is to supply fresh…

Feeding Cells

Feeding is an essential step to maintain cells in a healthy state in culture. Feeding of a culture is a…

Protocol – Thawing and Revival of Cryopreserved Cells

This protocol describes the revival process of cryopreserved adherent cells. The revival process involves rapid thawing of cryopreserved cells followed by removal of freezing medium which contains cryoprotectant, in this case, DMSO. The freezing medium can be removed immediately just after thawing the cells by centrifugation. Alternatively, cells are allowed to adhere to the culture dish followed by washing and addition of fresh growth medium.

Bacterial Contamination in Cell Culture

Bacterial Contamination in Cell Culture

Bacterial contamination is one of the most common cell culture contamination. Poor aseptic culture conditions, including handling, incubator and laminar…

Protocol – Subculturing Adherent Cells Growing in Serum-containing Growth Medium using Trypsin-EDTA

Overview The Trypsin-EDTA method, also referred to as trypsinization, is the most commonly used method for passaging/subculturing of adherent cells….

Protocol – Passaging/Subculturing Suspension Culture

Suspension culture is passaged by diluting the existing culture. Since cells float in the medium in suspension culture, they are not treated with a trypsin-EDTA solution. To subculture a suspension cell line, a small amount of cell suspension from the existing culture is transferred to a culture dish containing fresh growth medium.