Human Neural Stem Cell Media
HNSC Growth Medium: All-in-one ready-to-use
Type: Growth Medium
Size: 250 ml
Price: $147.00
Description
Human Neural Stem Cell Media are specialized cell culture formulations designed to support the self-renewal, expansion, and functional maintenance of human neural stem cell (HNSC) populations in vitro. Neural stem cells are multipotent progenitors capable of giving rise to the primary cell types of the central nervous system, including functional neurons and glial lineages such as astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. In vivo, neural stem cell niches within the brain contribute to neurogenesis during embryonic development and sustain more restricted regenerative capacity in adult neurogenic regions.
Functionally, Human Neural Stem Cell Media preserve the undifferentiated stem cell state and multipotent progenitor programs, ensuring cells retain their capacity for self-renewal while remaining competent for downstream neural differentiation. By providing a defined, optimized formulation with appropriate nutritional and growth factor conditions, these media enable researchers to generate scalable, relatively homogeneous starting cell populations for complex neuroscience workflows — maintaining an optimal balance between undifferentiated stem cell expansion and readiness for neural induction.
In research, Human Neural Stem Cell Media serve as a standardized baseline platform for disease modeling, neurodevelopmental studies, and drug discovery workflows. Maintaining NSCs in a consistent, quality-controlled media formulation allows investigators to reliably produce sufficient cell numbers for downstream assays. These often include evaluating induction and differentiation kinetics and assessing expression of neural identity markers — such as Nestin and SOX2 for stemness, TUJ1 for neurons, and GFAP for astrocytic lineage — alongside additional markers used to characterize specific neural lineages. Together with carefully chosen reagents, these media support reproducible generation and analysis of human neural lineages for neuroscience research, enabling comparative studies across experimental conditions and across the biological diversity present in human-derived NSC.
Human Neural Stem Cell Media provide essential resources for investigating human central nervous system biology in vitro — supporting the expansion of multipotent neural stem cells and enabling reproducible derivation of neurons and glia for applications spanning neurodevelopment, neurodegenerative disease modeling, and regenerative medicine.
Medium carefully optimized for the characteristics and requirements unique to stem cells. Attention to detail ensures ideal cell health, viability, performance, physiology, morphology, consistency and data.
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CAI media are tested for sterility in order to confirm no bacteria, yeast or fungi contaminate the solutions. The products undergo further quality control for correct pH, osmolality and lack of endotoxins. A panel of different bioassays affirm the media sustain a proper environment for expected cell-type-specific culture, growth, plating, karyotype, physiology, morphology, viability, population doublings, surface markers, cryopreservation, differentiation and/or induction.
Laboratory research use only (RUO). Not for human, clinical, diagnostic or veterinary use.
