Name of equipment/ reagent	Company	Catalogue no.	Comments/description
Cell culture	Collagenase D	Roche	11088866001
Dispase II	Sigma	D4693-1G	Must be filter sterilized before use
	Trypsin/EDTA	(Gibco) Invitrogen	15400-054
	100 µm cell strainer	BD Biosciences	352360
	Collagen solution ( 3 mg/ml in 0.1% acetic acid)	Sigma, Dorset, UK	C8919
Minisart SRP15 syringe filter (0.2 µm)	Sartorius	17573ACK	Polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) membrane
CD56 human Microbeads	Miltenyi Biotech	130-050-401	Magnetic-activated Cell Sorting (MACS) Be aware of the limited shelf life of microbeads
Anti- fibroblast Microbeads, human	Miltenyi Biotech	130-050-601
40 μm Pre-separation filters	Miltenyi Biotech	130-041-407
Large Cell Collumns	Miltenyi Biotech	130-042-202	These columns come with a flow resistor. Use of the flow resistor is not necessary to obtain the high myogenic purities described here.
LS columns	Miltenyi Biotech	130-042-401
MiniMacs Seperator	Miltenyi Biotech	130-042-102	This separator fits the large cell column but not the LS column.
MidiMACS	Miltenyi Biotech	130-042-302
MACS multistand	Miltenyi Biotech	130-042-303
BSA	Sigma		Must be filter sterilized before use
Oil Red O	Sigma	O0625	Lipid staining
Triethyl phosphate	Sigma	538728
Whatman Paper	Sigma	Z241121-1PAK	No. 42, Ashless. To prepare the filter fold the circular filter paper to make a semi circle, then fold the semi-circle in half again to form a cone shape. Fit the cone into a funnel for filtering.
			Mounting
ProLong Gold Antifade Reagent	Molecular Probes, Invitrogen	P36930	This can be purchased with or without DAPI and does not quench initial fluorescence.
AxioVision	Carl Zeiss	Contact Zeiss	Image aquisition software
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended	Adobe (purchased from Pugh Computers)	ADPH16982*	Image analysis software