Ham's tissue culture medium is a growth medium for

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cells.

It contains in amounts dissolved in 1 liter of triple

distilled water Distilled water is water that has been boiled into vapor and condensed back into liquid in a separate container. Impurities in the original water that do not boil below or near the boiling point of water remain in the original container. Thus, di ...

: :L-Arginine 211 mg :Biotin 0.024 mg :L-Histidine 21 mg :Calcium pantothenate 0.7 mg :L-Lysine 29.3 mg :Choline chloride 0.69 mg :L-Methionine 4.48 mg :i-inositol 0.54 mg :L-Phenylalanine 4.96 mg :Niacinamide 0.6 mg :L-Tryptophan 0.6 mg :Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.2 mg :L-Tyrosine 1.81 mg :Riboflavin 0.37 mg :L-Alanine 8.91 mg :Thymidine 0.7 mg :Glycine 7.51 mg :Cyanocobalamin 1.3 mg :L-Serine 10.5 mg :Sodium pyruvate 110 mg :L-Threonine 3.57 mg :Lipoic acid 0.2 mg :L-Aspartic acid 13.3 mg :CaCl₂ 44 mg :L-Glutamic acid 14.7 mg :MgSO₄·7H₂O 153 mg :L-Asparagine 15 mg :Glucose 1.1 g :L-Glutamine 146.2 mg :NaCl 7.4 g :L-Isoleucine 2.6 mg :KCl 285 mg :L-Leucine 13.1 mg :Na₂HPO₄ 290 mg :L-Proline 11.5 mg :KH₂PO₄ 83 mg :L-Valine 3.5 mg :Phenol red 1.2 mg :L-Cysteine 31.5 mg :FeSO₄ 0.83 mg :Thiamine hydrochloride 1 mg :CuSO₄·5H₂O 0.0025 mg :Hypoxanthine 4 mg :ZnSO₄·7H₂O 0.028 mg :Folic acid 1.3 mg :NaHCO₃ 1.2 g

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