Cultured cells at constant pH?

[Ian A. York]

In article <33E9F047.5615 at chugaibio.com>,
Dom Spinella <dspinella at chugaibio.com, @chugaibio.com> wrote:
>
>The problem with most culture media using the common CO2/bicarbonate
>buffering system is that bicarb is a very weak buffer at physiological
>pH.  A better choice is one of the Good buffers such as HEPES (at 10 -
>20 mM) which is a much stronger buffer at this pH range.  See R. Ian

I've been using HEPES-buffered media, and the pH still drops dramatically
as the cells grow, because they all have some bicarbonate buffering as
well.  Thanks for the recommendation of the book, though; I'll check it
out.

Ian
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