Methylcellulose during cryopreservation of ventral mesencephalic tissue fragments fails to improve survival and function of cell suspension grafts

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 173-179

  Sautter, Jürgen ^a,b   Strecker, Sabine ^a,b   Kupsch, Andreas ^a   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine; Cell suspension graft; Cryopreservation; Dopamine neurons; Methylcellulose; Parkinson's disease; Rat; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

METHYLCELLULOSE; OXIDOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029920004     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0270(95)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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