Banking of osteochondral allografts. Part I. Viability assays adapted for osteochondrol and cartilage studies

Cell and Tissue Banking

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 151-159

  Csönge, Lajos ^a,f   Bravo, Daniel ^b   Newman Gage, Helen ^c   Rigley, Theodore ^b   Conrad, Ernest U ^c   Bakay, András ^d   Strong, D Michael ^e   Pellet, Sándor ^a  

^a West Hungarian Regional Tissue Bank   (Hungary)

^b PUGET SOUND BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d MAV Hospital   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Fluorescent dye; MTT assay; Osteochondral allograft; Viability

Indexed keywords

2 METHOXYETHANOL; FLUORESCENT DYE; FORMAZAN; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PIGMENT; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; RADIOISOTOPE; REAGENT; TETRAZOLIUM REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOPSY; BONE ALLOGRAFT; CALCULATION; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE GRAFT; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME KINETICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; GRAFT PRESERVATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCUBATION TIME; ISOTOPE TRACING; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STAINING; TALUS; VELOCITY; WEIGHT;

EID: 0038121103     PISSN: 13899333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023665418244     Document Type: Article

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