Smooth muscle cell injury after cryopreservation of human thoracic aortas

Cryobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 309-316

  Pasquinelli, G ^a   Foroni, L ^a   Buzzi, M ^a   Tazzari, P L ^a   Vaselli, C ^a   Mirelli, M ^a   Gargiulo, M ^a   Conte, R ^a   Stella, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial banking; Cryopreservation; Flow cytometry; Human aortic homografts; Immunohistochemistry; Organ culture; Smooth muscle cell injury; Transmission electron microscopy; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA FRAGMENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AORTA GRAFT; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BATH; CELL DAMAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THAWING; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AORTA, THORACIC; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGAN PRESERVATION; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 33644808063     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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