AmnioMAX™ C-100 Basal Medium

Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Basal Medium is part of a kit used to prepare a fully-supplemented Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Complete Medium developed for the short term culture of human amniotic fluid cells for cytogenetic studies and in vitro diagnostic procedures.

Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Complete Medium features:

• Easy-to-use format
• Quality and performance testing
• Unique, optimized formulation

Easy-to-use format

Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Complete Medium is a two-part kit for preparation of a complete medium that requires no additional supplementation. The complete medium can be stored at 2–8°C for up to ten days.

Quality and performance testing

Every lot of Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Complete Medium is performance tested by a certified US reference cytogenetics laboratory to ensure consistently superior performance. Pooled primary human amniotic fluid samples are cultured for six days in Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Complete Medium before measuring the total number of colonies and total number of mitotic colonies. In addition, each lot is tested for sterility, pH and osmolality.

Unique, optimized formulation

Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Complete Medium contains Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS), gentamicin, and L-glutamine to maximize cell attachment and growth. This optimized medium also has an enhanced buffering system that provides greater pH stability during culture manipulations.

cGMP Manufacturing and Quality System

Gibco® AmnioMAX™ C-100 Basal Medium is manufactured at a cGMP compliant facility, located in Grand Island, New York. The facility is registered with the FDA as a medical device manufacturer and is certified to ISO 13485 standards.