Effects of freezing profile parameters on the survival of cryopreserved rat embryonic neural cells

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-16

  Higgins, Adam Z ^a   Cullen, D Kacy ^a   LaPlaca, Michelle C ^a   Karlsson, Jens O M ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled rate freezing; Cryopreservation; Intracellular ice formation; Optimization; Solutions effects

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; LIQUID NITROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CELL; FREEZING; IMMERSION; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THAWING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; FREEZING; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80052322695     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.06.033     Document Type: Article

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