Effect of cryopreservation on cell proliferation and immunogenicity of transplanted human heart cells

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-112

  Yokomuro, Hiroki ^a   Shiono, Noritsugu ^a   Ozawa, Tsukasa ^a   Fujii, Takeshiro ^a   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a   Koyama, Nobuya ^a   Okada, Mitsumasa ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Cell transplantation; Cryopreservation; Human heart cell; Immunogenicity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEWIS RAT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TRANSPLANTATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77953483101     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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