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. 2021 Apr 13;10(4):886. doi: 10.3390/cells10040886

Table 4.

Composition of three disclosed chemically defined cell culture media for MSCs.

Ref. [144] [145] [150]
Basal Media IMDM IMDM 17.7 g/L IDMD
Supplemented With 17.91 ng bovine FGF/mL 5 mg/mL human serum albumin 5 mM l-glutamine
2.80 mg/mL human albumin 100 μg/mL human Ex-Cyte lipoprotein 3.024 g/L sodium bicarbonate
27. 65 µM hydrocortisone 2 μg/mL saturated human transferrin 10 mg/L rh insulin
1.18% SITE
(S4920; containing
0.5 µg/mL sodium selenite, 1.0 mg/mL bovine insulin, 0.55 mg/mL human transferrin, 0.2 mg/mL ethanolamine; 100-fold concentrate)
10 μg/mL rh insulin 10 mg/L rh transferrin
1.0% 100 × MEM vitamins 4 g/L rh serum albumin
0.89% MEM essential amino acids 55 μM β-mercaptoethanol
0.4% MEM nonessential amino acids 0.1% chemically defined lipid concentrate
1 mM sodium pyruvate 2% MEM essential amino acids solution
1 mM GlutaMAX-I supplement 1% MEM non-essential amino acid solution
10 μg/mL folic acid 1% Vitamins solution
10 μM ascorbic acid 2-phosphate 0.1% trace elements solution
1.0 μg/mL Biotin 50 μg/L hydrocortisone
1.36 μg/mL vitamin B12 mix 50 mg/L l-ascorbic acid-2-phosphate
500fold diluted trace element mix 5 mg/L rh fibronectin
4 × 10−8 M FeSO4 5 μg/L progesterone
10 μg/mL nucleoside mix
(ribonucleosides, 2′-deoxyribo-nucleosides, uridine, and thymidine)
10 mg/L putrescine
2 mg/L serotonin
10 ng/mL rh EGF
1.0% antibiotic/antimycotic 10 ng/mL rh basic FGF
10–20 ng/mL rh PDGF ββ homodimer
or 10−5 to 10−6 M 5-hydroxytryptamine
10 ng/mL rh PDGF
10 ng/mL rh IGF

(Abbreviations: EGF—epidermal growth factor, FGF—fibroblast growth factor, rh—recombinant human, IGF—insulin-like growth factor, IMDM—Iscove’s modified Dulbecco’s medium, MEM—minimum essential media, PDGF—platelet-derived growth factor).