Cryopreservation of living cells: Principles and practice

Transfusion

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 935-945

  Meryman, Harold T ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; POLYMER;

CALCULATION; CELL TYPE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DILUTION; FREEZING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOSIS; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THAWING; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; HUMANS;

EID: 34247622475     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01212.x     Document Type: Review

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