Abstract
Attachment and growth of mammalian cells plated at low cell density require optimum conditions for the cells to form colonies. Reliability, reproducibility, and validity of the plating efficiency test for evaluating cell culture sera were determined by measuring the plating efficiency of 37 lots of fetal bovine serum obtained from 8 suppliers (5 lots from each of 7, 2 lots from 1 supplier), by using hamster embryo fibroblasts plated at low cell density. The test revealed considerable variation between lots of serum and between suppliers. The five lots from some suppliers had consistently high plating efficiencies, whereas one or more lots from other suppliers had quite low efficiencies. The results were reproducible in repeated tests, and control experiments indicated that the test measured the efficiency of the test serum independently of the efficiency of the serum used for the primary outgrowth of the hamster embryo cells.
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