Sterile dissections

Cell culture (Cancer)

Suggested list of materials to sterilize for cell culture

When antibiotics are to be used, use 0.1mg/ml gentamicin !!!

C 0.5, 1.5ml Ependorf tubes (~50 each)
C
200 Fl & 1000 Fl pipette tips (1 box each)
C
1 black dissection dish
C
Several 35mm transparent Sylgard Petri dishes with pins
C
Perfusion bottles (2 x 250ml, 1 x 500ml and an optional 1000ml)
C
1 graduated cylinder (100-250 ml)
C
Several 100ml capped bottles
C
Several 500ml and/or 1000ml capped bottles
C
1 beaker (250-500 ml)
C
1 box Kimwipes (wrapped in aluminum foil)
C
1 lt distilled water
C
Fire polished suction pipettes
C
Cancer Saline (1 liter for dissections kept cold)
C Cancer Supplement solution (1 lt)
C
Zero Ca++ / Zero Mg++ solution (250ml, sterile and with antibiotics)

Other solutions:

C Leibovitz L-15 medium (Gibco). It comes as a powder that has to be dissolved in sterile water.
C This will be mixed 50-50 with the supplement solution.
C
Gentamicin (Gibco, 50mg/ml)
C
(Fungizone) Not for now.

  
 
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