Cold storage and cryopreservation of tick cell lines

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lallinger, Gertrud ^a   Zweygarth, Erich ^b   Bell Sakyi, Lesley ^c   Passos, Lygia Mf ^b,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; LIQUID NITROGEN; SUCROSE; TRYPAN BLUE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BOOPHILUS; CELL LINE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; GIEMSA STAIN; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; NONHUMAN; RHIPICEPHALUS; SPECIES CULTIVATION; TICK;

ARGASIDAE; BOOPHILUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 77950647536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-37     Document Type: Article

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