Primary glioma spheroids maintain tumourogenicity and essential phenotypic traits after cryopreservation

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-427

  Sundlisaeter E ^a   Wang, J ^a   Sakariassen, P O ^a   Marie, M ^a   Mathisen, J R ^b   Karlsen, B O ^a   Prestegarden, L ^a   Skaftnesmo, K O ^a   Bjerkvig, R ^a   Enger, P O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Gliomas; Immunohistochemistry; Macroarray; Spheroids; Viability

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BIOPSY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STORAGE; THAWING; TISSUE CULTURE; TUMOR SPHEROID;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHENOTYPE; RATS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 33745750759     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2006.00744.x     Document Type: Article

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