MP Biomedicals™ Bovine Pituitary Extract

Filtered Bovine Pituitary Extract for cell culture.

Catalog Number	Mfr. No.	Quantity
MP092850450	MP Biomedicals™ 092850450	2.5 mL
MP092850445	MP Biomedicals™ 092850445	10 mL

Description

• Bovine Pituitary Extract (BPE) is made from fresh, flash-frozen pituitary glands from young, healthy cattle between the ages of 18 to 22 months
• The cattle are born, raised and slaughtered in New Zealand from a USDA approved source
• New Zealand cattle are internationally recognized as free from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad-cow disease) and have no history of blue tongue disease
• BPE continues to be the most successful of the tissue-sourced extracts to date and allows researchers to study normal primary cell types including stem cells in proliferating cultures
• Formulated at 14 mg/mL crude protein, this aqueous BPE has a full spectrum of mitogens and differentiation factors
• The Bovine Pituitary Extract is not lyophilized, as this process has been shown to reduce biological activity
• For cell culture, the optimal medium supplementation rate is 35 μg/mL BPE based on growth tests on human mammary epithelial cells, epidermal keratinocytes, prostatic and bronchial epithelial cells
• This product has been sterile-filtered prior to shipping

Specifications

• Content And Storage: Store at -20°C, do not thaw and refreeze
• Form: Liquid
• For Use With (Application): Cell Culture

• Concentration: 14 mg/mL
• Sterility: Sterile

Unless specified otherwise, MP Biomedical's products are for research or further manufacturing use only, not for direct human use.