Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) is a balanced salt solution that is used for a variety of cell culture applications, such as washing cells before dissociation, transporting cells or tissue samples, diluting cells for counting, and preparing reagents. PBS is formulated without calcium and magnesium for rinsing chelators from the culture before cell dissociation. Concentrated forms of Gibco PBS may require pH adjustment at the time of dilution (see protocol for details).
This PBS is manufactured as follows:
Without
• Calcium
• Magnesium
• Phenol Red