Effect of anti freeze proteins on frozen primary prostatic adenocarcinoma cells

Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 421-425

  Koushafar, Homayoon ^a   Rubinsky, Boris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL DAMAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOSURGERY; DRUG EFFECT; FREEZING; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROTEIN FAMILY; WATER PERMEABILITY; ADENOCARCINOMA; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CELL DEATH; FREEZING; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030615223     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00572-9     Document Type: Article

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