Supplemental Experimental Procedures Cell culture. Rat bone marrow cells (BMC) were cultured in αDMEM culture medium (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum. Rat primary ear fibroblasts (PEF) were cultured in DMEM culture medium (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum. Rat iPS cells were maintained on irradiated mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) in K...

Osteochondral plugs were harvested from eight fresh human femoral condyles within 96 hours of donor death. The plugs were either stored in a serum-free media containing glucose, salts, and amino acids or 10% fetal bovine serum at 4 degrees C. After 28 days of storage, the osteochondral plugs were analyzed for chondrocyte viability and viable cell density using confocal microscopy, proteoglycan ...

Herein, we report the interaction of N, N-dimethyl-2-oxopyrrolidinium iodide with bovine serum albumin by using steady-state fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, UV-visible and Fourier Transform-Infrared spectroscopy in combination with molecular docking method. The steady state fluorescence spectra results confirmed that N, N-dimethyl2-oxopyrrolidinium iodide strongly quenches the intrins...

X-radiation and nitrogen mustard administration inhibit the formation of precipitins for whole bovine serum and bovine serum gamma globulin in the rabbit. When specific antibody formation is inhibited by these agents, intravenous injection of a single large dose of bovine serum gamma globulin is not usually followed by the development of tissue lesions 9 to 11 days later, as occurs fairly regul...

Hyaluronan (HA) hydrolysis catalysed by hyaluronidase (HAase) is strongly inhibited when performed at low HAase over HA concentration ratio and under low ionic strength conditions. The reason is the ability of long HA chains to form electrostatic and non-catalytic complexes with HAase. For a given HA concentration, low HAase concentrations lead to very low hydrolysis rates because all the HAase...

In this communication we describe serum-free culture conditions for the serial propagation of the C6 glioma cell line. The growth rate, saturation density, and morphology of these cells are equivalent to those of their serum-grown counterparts when cultured in a 3:1 mixture of Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium and Ham's medium F-12 supplemented with trace elements, insulin, transferrin, fibrob...

To investigate the IgG content and its variations in uterine fluid (UF) during the estrous cycle of the cow and to compare them with those of the blood serum (S), six pairs of serum and UF samples for each phase of the cycle selected out of 240 bovine genital tracts and blood samples were collected from Urmia abattoir. The UF samples were collected by gentle scraping of the endometrium using a ...

The interactions of cefoperazone sodium with bovine transferrin and bovine serum albumin were studied by multi-spectroscopic methods. Results showed that the intrinsic fluorescence of proteins was quenched by the cefoperazone sodium with a static quenching procedure. The thermodynamics parameters indicated that electrostatic attraction played a major role in the interactions of drug and protein...