Salt solutions maintain the osmolarity of reagents used in the laboratory and have a buffering effect on pH.
They are widely used in the laboratory as washing solutions for cells prior to their dissociation or as reaction buffers for biochemical tests (ELISA) and other diagnostic techniques.

In microbiology, saline solutions are also used for the preparation of culture media and for the dilution of samples in microbiology tests.

Salt solutions are used: for the preparation of organ parts, during the dissociation process, to isolate cell suspensions or to prepare viral transport medium.

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Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) is a little protein of 66kDa present in animal serum and makes up approximately 60% of all proteins.

Because of its negative charge, Bovine Serum Albumin binds water, salts, fatty acids, vitamins and hormones and carries these bound components between tissues and cells.

Albumins are frequently used as stabilizers for other solubilized proteins (e.g., labile enzymes).

Due to its high stability and less interference with biological activities, BSA is used on many biochemical applications such as Immunochemistry and Western-Blot or ELISA, in which it is used as a blocking reagent.

Use antibiotics to preserve and protect your cells by getting rid of micro-organisms.

Antibiotics should not be used routinely but only for short-term applications as their continued use encourages the development of antibiotic-resistant strains.
In addition, some antibiotics can cross-react with cells and interfere with the cellular processes being studied.

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Human serum and plasma are collected from voluntary donors and processed in accordance with European regulations. Each batch is double 0.2 µm filtered and tested for HBs, HCV, and HIV-1/2. The country of collection is listed on the certificate of analysis.

Important: Human-origin products must be considered as potentially infectious and handled accordingly.