Friday, July 21, 2006
Non-specific effects of DMSO
Speaking of noise: a lot of us use DMSO as a vehicle in TC to dissolve non-polar mollecules. Not suprisingly, DMSO affects a lot of things in a cell that can muddle the interpretation of data. It's commonly used as a differentiating agent for leukocytes, and is a known HDAC inhibitor, so beware...
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I think those problems are specific to ovarian cell lines. Maybe you should just try working with some real man's cells.
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