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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 21.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Enzymol. 2008;446:61–76. doi: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)01604-2

Table 4.2.

Medium recipes for iMMECs

Component 2× hormone plating medium Reduced-FBS growth medium Regular growth medium Cloning medium Differentiation medium
F12 250 ml 500 ml 500 ml 50 ml 500 ml
FBS No FBS! (already in fetuin-serum solution) 25 ml (5% final) 50 ml (10% final) 10 ml (20% final)
EGF (10 μg/ml stock in PBS 250 μl (10 ng/ml final) 250 μl (5 ng/ml final) 250 μl (5 ng/ml final) 25 μl (5 ng/ml final)
Hydrocortisone (1 mg/ml stock in EtOH) 500 μl (2 μg/ml final) 500 μl (1 μg/ml final) 500 μl (1 μg/ml final) 50 μl (1 μg/ml final) 500 μl (1 μg/ml final)
Insulin (10 mg/ml stock) 250 μl (10 μg/ml final) 250 μl (5 μg/ml final) 250 μl (5 μg/ml final) 25 μl (5 μg/ml final) 250 μl (5 μg/ml final)
Prolactin 1.5 mg (3 μg/ml final)
Pen/Strep (10,000 units) 5 ml 5 ml 5 ml 0.5 5 ml