Ice-free cryopreservation of heart valve allografts: Better extracellular matrix preservation in vivo and preclinical results

Cell and Tissue Banking

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 663-671

  Brockbank, Kelvin G M ^a,b,c   Schenke Layland, Katja ^d,e,f   Greene, Elizabeth D ^a   Chen, Zhenzhen ^a   Fritze, Olaf ^g   Schleicher, Martina ^g   Kaulitz, Renate ^g   Riemann, Iris ^h   Fend, Falko ^g   Albes, Johannes M ⁱ   Stock, Ulrich A ^g   Lisy, Milan ^g  

^a Cell and Tissue Systems Inc   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

ⁱ Heart Centre Brandenburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allogeneic; Cryopreservation; Heart valve; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; ICE;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FREEZING; HEART VALVE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PATHOLOGY; SHEEP; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FREEZING; HEART VALVES; ICE; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; SHEEP; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84864315033     PISSN: 13899333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10561-011-9288-7     Document Type: Article

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