Vitreous cryopreservation of cell-biomaterial constructs involving encapsulated hepatocytes

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 649-658

  Wu, Yingnan ^a   Yu, Hanry ^a,b   Chang, Shi ^a,c   Magalhães, Raquel ^a   Kuleshova, Lilia L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; COLLAGEN; CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); VITRIFICATION;

CELL DENSITY; CELL VIABILITY; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEPATOCYTES;

CELLS;

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LIQUID NITROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VIABILITY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENCAPSULATION; IMMERSION; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VITREOUS BODY; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CAPSULES; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEPATOCYTES; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34147206688     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.0075     Document Type: Article

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