help needed for serum-free cos cell culture

[Ian A. York]

In article <5sbrk8$1n1i at www.univie.ac.at>,  <harald at mol.univie.ac.at> wrote:
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>I am planning to grow cos cells (monkey kidney) in a serum-free medium in 
>order to study some growth-promoting agents. Is there anybody with 
>experience in serum-free cell culture and/or in cos cell culture? The 

I've never grown COS for long periods in serum-free medium, but I have
grown them in OptiMEM (GibcoBRL) for several days, and they seemed
perfectly happy at the end of it.  

Ian
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