You might be referring to the use of PBS in animal systems like mice or rat. When they mean PBS i.p. (was it written this way?), it means administration of PBS into animal was via intraperitoneal injection or i.p (in the abdmomen). Unless otherwise told, PBS contains both KCl and NaCl along with Na2HPO4 and NaH2PO4. Refer the Sambrook manual or the current protocols in Molecular biology or any standard tissue culture manual for the PBS recipe. When the monobasic and dibasic salts are corrected added, the pH will be around 7.5. If it is 6.4, your recipe is not right. Jay
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of sudheer sangeetham Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: 10X PBS Hi People I have few doubts regarding phosphte buffer saline (PBS). Recently I found one article related to my work, in that they used PBS ( Nacl/iP ) pH-7.4. Nacl/iP does it mean, it should contain Na2HP04 and NaH2PO4 and Nacl but not KCl, am I right? I have prepared the buffer like this NaH2PO4 ( 0.038M) Na2HPO4.2H20 ( 0.162M) NaCl (1.5 M ) but when i check the pH it was showing 6.4, is it correct? did I do any mistake.... Could any one please tell me did i do any mistake? Thank you in advance -- Sudheer Babu.S Ph.D student Institute of Biochemistry Biological Research Center Szeged,Hungary. _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
