Towards a xeno-free and fully chemically defined cryopreservation medium for maintaining viability, recovery, and antigen-specific functionality of PBMC during long-term storage

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 382, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 24-31

  Schulz, Julia C ^a   Germann, Anja ^a   Kemp Kamke, Beatrice ^a   Mazzotta, Angela ^a   von Briesen, Hagen ^a   Zimmermann, Heiko ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Fully chemically defined; Long term stability; PBMC; Serum free; Xeno free

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHELF LIFE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIGENS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 84863599645     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: 18727905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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