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Why you are using 2 mercaptoethanol in mes cell culture?

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Mercaptoethanol is a thiol compound that is involved in the reduction of substances and prevents the oxidation of cysteine to cystine, thus increasing cysteine activity. It acts as an antioxidant by itself and indirectly by increasing intracellular gluthathione and cysteine activity

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