Help! How to dissolve Taxol?

[Christine Hacker]

PaulWEld (paulweld at aol.com) wrote:
: Could anyone please give me some help about how to dissolve taxol? I need
: to treat some tissue culture cells with taxol and I am having trouble
: getting it to go into solution. I have heard that an ethanol and Tween
: solution works but I have no idea about concentrations of solvents. Please
: reply here or e-mail me at paulweld at aol.com. 
: Thanks!

I think a 20% EtOH solution should work if your cell cultures do not mind the Et OH

Christine
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