Stroebech Heavy Oil

Code: 50-GTI

Description

Stroebech Oil is a pharmaceutical grade light mineral oil*), pre-washed and sterile filtered light paraffin oil. Oil is often the key to poor results, use only BEA tested and Peroxide Value (POV) tested oil as minimum standard quality control.

*) Liquid paraffin oil is a mineral oil and is a by-product of crude oil distillation.

Oil viscosity influences temperature, pH and osmolarity, with higher viscosity demonstrating higher yields after overlay in embryo culture in terms of blastocyst formation rates and cell counts.

Advantages: easier to handle, droplets are maintained better, and oil doesn’t spill over as easy.

Temperature, pH is better maintained and increased media osmolarity is avoided both during handling and during culture. This has a positive impact on blastocyst rate formation – especially for the longer culture periods required in some species.

The unit of viscosity is newton-second per square metre, which is usually expressed as pascal-second in SI units, cP