Scalable culture and cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cells on microcarriers

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-31

  Nie, Ying ^a,b   Bergendahl, Veit ^c   Hei, Derek J ^d   Jones, Jeffrey M ^b,e   Palecek, Sean P ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b WiCell Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell expansion; Cryopreservation; Human embryonic stem cells; Microcarriers

Indexed keywords

CELL EXPANSION; CELL NUMBERS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIFFERENTIATION RATES; EXPANSION RATES; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MICROCARRIER; MICROCARRIERS; MOUSE EMBRYONIC FIBROBLASTS; PLURIPOTENCY; PLURIPOTENT; REGENERATIVE MEDICINES; THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS; TISSUE CULTURE PLATES; UNDIFFERENTIATED CELLS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; CELL MEMBRANES; OSTEOBLASTS; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

CELL CULTURE;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPING;

EID: 64549145534     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.110     Document Type: Article

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