Can I use 10% Bovine Calf Serum (BCS) instead of 10% Foetal Calf Serum (FBS) for MDA-MB-231?

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Because of the availability and low cost of BCS, I am going to use this one for MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line. But, I see in most of the papers published using FBS for this cell line. Though, I have found a paper (please find the link below) which used 10% BCS for this cell line. However, the pape is pretty old. And for your kind information, I do not see any morphological and growth change after using the 10% BCS. But, to me cells are being acidic quickly after using BCS than FBS.

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