An efficient, economical slow-freezing method for large-scale human embryonic stem cell banking

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 721-728

  T'Joen, Veronique ^a   De Grande, Linde ^a   Declercq, Heidi ^a   Cornelissen, Maria ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; HETASTARCH; LIQUID NITROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL BANKING; FREEZING; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW FREEZING METHOD; STEM CELL EXPANSION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL ENGINEERING; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYOID BODIES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEEDER CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84859459174     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: 15578534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2011.0192     Document Type: Article

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