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Human Smooth Muscle Cell Media

Human SMC Growth Medium: All-in-one ready-to-use

Type: Growth Medium
Size: 500 ml

CAT. #: 311-500

Price: $155.00

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Human Smooth Muscle Cell Media is formulated to support the growth and maintenance of human smooth muscle cells in vitro, promoting consistent cell health, proliferation, and preservation of phenotype relevant to vascular and cardiac biology. Smooth muscle cells are involuntary cells found in the walls of blood vessels, including the aorta and coronary arteries, as well as in the heart and other contractile tissues, where they contribute to regulation of vessel tone and blood flow. In disease contexts, dysregulated smooth muscle cell behaviors contribute to pathological vascular remodeling, including plaque formation and blockage that can underlie atherosclerosis, and to changes that affect cardiac function.

In research, Human Smooth Muscle Cell Media, sometimes referred to as SMCM, supports primary smooth muscle cell culture derived from donor tissues such as blood vessel segments (e.g., artery and vein), enabling researchers to model how growth factor–driven signaling influences smooth muscle cell proliferation and phenotype. A complete medium format with defined media supplements and growth factor support helps create reliable culture conditions that maintain contractile function–related properties and cellular responsiveness under controlled laboratory conditions. This is important for studies that use human smooth muscle cell cultures to investigate mechanisms of vascular remodeling and atherosclerosis, and for experiments assessing how stimuli alter smooth muscle cell behavior, including transitions between growth-associated and more contractile states.

Because smooth muscle cell culture is frequently used alongside additional reagents and downstream assays, the media’s optimized properties can help researchers obtain reproducible cell populations for functional studies, including activity measurements tied to contractile phenotypes. Human Smooth Muscle Cell Media is commonly used by researchers to culture endothelial-adjacent vascular systems as part of broader cell culture systems, and to generate data in investigations of how signaling changes contribute to plaque-associated remodeling in the blood vessel wall, with particular relevance to diseases affecting the heart and cardiovascular circulation.

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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.
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