The Israel national skin bank: Quality assurance and graft performance of stored tissues

Cell and Tissue Banking

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 303-312

  Ben Bassat, H ^a   Chaouat, M ^a   Zumai, E ^a   Segal, N ^a   Cinamon, U ^a   Ron, M ^a   Wexler, M R ^a   Eldad, A ^a,b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Glycerolization; Graft take; Human allografts; In vivo model; Mouse recipient model; Programmed freezing; Skin preservation; Skin storage; The Israel National Skin Bank; Tissue banking; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000012998     PISSN: 13899333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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