Name: Mycoplasma Elimination Cocktail
SKU: G398
Price: 104.78 USD
Availability: InStock

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Additional cell culture reagents are specialized products used to support cell culture procedures that extend beyond routine media preparation, supplementation, and contamination control. These reagents perform specific functions such as cryopreservation, stable cell line selection, transfection, cell attachment enhancement, suspension culture protection, and metabolic supplementation.
While basal media, sera, buffers, and standard supplements provide the foundation for cell growth, additional cell culture reagents help researchers manipulate, preserve, modify, and optimize cells for specialized applications in research, biotechnology, and biomanufacturing.
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<h2 dir="ltr">What you will find:</h2>
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High-Purity Animal Sera for enhanced cell proliferation and maintenance, e.g., USDA Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS)&nbsp;
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Specialized Growth Supplements for primary cell cultivation, e.g., Macrophage Culture Supernatants and ECGS
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Cell Viability and Counting Stains for accurate analysis of cellular density and health, e.g., Standardized Trypan Blue solutions&nbsp;
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Isotonic Buffer Solutions for reagent dilution and gentle cell washing, e.g., High-quality PBS and DPBS and&nbsp; formulations
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Antimicrobial and Hormonal Additives for optimization of cultures, e.g., Hydrocortisone and targeted Mycoplasma elimination cocktails
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<h2 data-section-id="1e70xzx" data-start="889" data-end="938">How to choose additional cell culture reagents</h2>
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Cryopreservation reagents
Cryopreservation reagents protect cells during freezing and long-term storage. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) remains the most widely used cryoprotectant and is commonly included at 5&ndash;10% concentration in freezing media to reduce ice crystal formation that can damage cell membranes.
Ready-to-use freezing media are available in both DMSO-containing and DMSO-free formulations, allowing researchers to select the most appropriate option for sensitive cell types and specialized applications.
Selection antibiotics
Selection antibiotics are used to identify and maintain cells that have successfully incorporated a genetic construct carrying a corresponding resistance gene.
The optimal working concentration must be determined experimentally using a kill curve to identify the lowest concentration that completely eliminates non-resistant cells.
Transfection reagents
Transfection reagents facilitate the delivery of DNA, RNA, or gene-editing components into cultured cells.
Cationic lipid reagents are among the most commonly used transfection tools because they form complexes with nucleic acids that can enter cells through endocytosis. Polybrene is frequently used during viral transduction to improve vector binding and increase transduction efficiency.
Attachment factors
Certain primary cells, neuronal cultures, stem cells, and other sensitive cell types require enhanced surface adhesion. Attachment factors are applied as coatings to culture vessels before cell seeding.
Common attachment factors include:
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These coatings improve cell attachment, spreading, survival, and differentiation.
Cell-protective agents
Suspension cultures and bioreactor systems expose cells to mechanical stress from agitation and aeration. Cell-protective surfactants such as Pluronic F-68 help reduce shear damage and improve cell viability during large-scale culture processes.
Glucose supplementation
Some cell culture protocols require glucose concentrations higher than those supplied by the basal medium. Concentrated glucose solutions can be added to support high-density cultures, serum-free systems, or specialized metabolic studies.
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<h2 data-section-id="1fljvas" data-start="4355" data-end="4380">Specifications context</h2>
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Selection antibiotic optimization remains a critical step in stable cell line development, with kill-curve experiments routinely performed before large-scale selection. Attachment factors continue to play an important role in primary cell, neuronal, and stem cell culture, while Pluronic F-68 remains widely used in suspension and bioreactor-based production systems.
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Mycoplasma Elimination Cocktail

MycoAway™ 1000X Mycoplasma Cocktail (G398) by Applied Biological Materials is a 1.0 ml 1000X concentrate that eliminates 70+ Mycoplasma species from adherent and suspension cell cultures in 1–2 weeks (2–3 passages), non-toxic at 1X working concentration. Pair with G238 or G239 for complete detect-and-eliminate workflow. Store at –20°C.