Microencapsulation technology: A powerful tool for integrating expansion and cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Serra, Margarida ^a,b   Correia, Cláudia ^a,b   Malpique, Rita ^a,b   Brito, Catarina ^a,b   Jensen, Janne ^c   Bjorquist, Petter ^c   Carrondo, Manuel J T ^b,d   Alves, Paula M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c Cellartis AB ^*  (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BIOPROCESS; BIOREACTOR; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROENCAPSULATION; SHEAR STRESS; THAWING; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG FORMULATION; METHODOLOGY;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG COMPOUNDING; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS;

EID: 79961158737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023212     Document Type: Article

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