Cryopreservation of precision cut tissue slices (PCTS): Investigation of morphology and reactivity

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 575-580

  Kasper, Hans Udo ^a,b   Konze, Elisabeth ^b   Kutinová Canová, Nikolina ^c   Dienes, Hans Peter ^b   Dries, Volker ^b,d  

^a Clemenshospital Munster   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Inst of Pathol and Gynecopathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cryopreservation; Liver; Precision cut tissue slices

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; SWINE; THAWING; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE SLICE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; LIVER; SWINE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

SUS;

EID: 80051705539     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: 16181433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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