Product Introduction
Using healthy horse blood as raw material, sterile blood is collected in a closed system and filtered through micropores. The characteristic is a light yellow clear liquid without bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma, etc. Horse serum has higher protein content and less trace metals than fetal bovine serum. In some applications, it can be used as a substitute for fetal bovine serum and is an important culture medium for hospitals, research institutions, animal vaccines, and biopharmaceutical manufacturers.
Product Application
Horse serum has been used as a supplement in minimum essential medium for cerebrocortical neuronal−glial cell culturesand RPMI-40 medium for PC12 cells derived from rat adrenal medulla pheochromocytoma.It has also been used in immunohistochemistry of Florida manatee brain sections.
Normal horse serum may be used as a blocking agent and controls in immunoassays. For immunohistochemistry and immunocytochemistry, 10% horse serum was used as blocking agent in various Studies.
Horse serum was used in immunostaining for blocking non-specific antibodies binding.