Donor Horse Serum (DHS) contains higher concentrations of protein when compared to Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS), but lower trace metals concentration making it an ideal supplement for complex media formulations where higher protein concentration is not a factor.
Supplemented Cell-Culture Media has demonstrated its suitability not only for the culture of haematopoietic stem cells and neuronal cells but is also utilized in diagnostic assays as well as growth and detection media for Mycoplasma spp.
Donor Horse Serum may be preferred to FBS, under certain circumstances, as it can be obtained from a closed herd which makes it more consistent from batch to batch.