Agarose is one of the two principal components of agar, and is purified from agar by removing agar's other component, agaropectin.
A 1543 (OTTO) Agarose low melting Cas 9012-36-6 - used as a support for the tri-dimensional culture of human and animal cells. Because agarose forms a non-cytotoxic hydrogels, it can be utilized to reproduce the natural environment of cells in the human body, the extracellular matrix.