Ham's tissue culture medium is a growth medium for mammalian cells. Contents It contains in amounts dissolved in 1 liter of triple distilled water: L-Arginine 211 mg Biotin 0.024 mg L-Histidine 21 mg Calcium pantothenate 0.7 mg L-Lysine 29.3 mg Choline chloride 0.69 mg L-Methionine 4.48 mg i-inositol 0.54 mg L-Phenylalanine 4.96 mg Niacinamide 0.6 mg L-Tryptophan 0.6 mg Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.2 mg L-Tyrosine 1.81 mg Riboflavin 0.37 mg L-Alanine 8.91 mg Thymidine 0.7 mg Glycine 7.51 mg Cyanocobalamin 1.3 mg L-Serine 10.5 mg Sodium pyruvate 110 mg L-Threonine 3.57 mg Lipoic acid 0.2 mg L-Aspartic acid 13.3 mg CaCl2 44 mg L-Glutamic acid 14.7 mg MgSO4·7H2O 153 mg L-Asparagine 15 mg Glucose 1.1 g L-Glutamine 146.2 mg NaCl 7.4 g L-Isoleucine 2.6 mg KCl 285 mg L-Leucine 13.1 mg Na2HPO4 290 mg L-Proline 11.5 mg KH2PO4 83 mg L-Valine 3.5 mg Phenol red 1.2 mg L-Cysteine 31.5 mg FeSO4 0.83 mg Thiamine hydrochloride 1 mg CuSO4·5H2O 0.0025 mg Hypoxanthine 4 mg ZnSO4·7H2O 0.028 mg Folic acid 1.3 mg NaHCO3 1.2 g See also Biotechnology Brewing Cell biology DMEM Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium Eagle's minimal essential medium (a minimum ingredient cell culture medium) Fermentation (food) GMEM (Glasgow's Minimal Essential Medium) Murashige and Skoog medium (Plant cell culture medium) RPMI (Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium), for lymph cells References Further reading The Nutrient Requirements of Cells Cell biology