Cryopreservation of precision-cut tissue slices

Xenobiotica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-132

  Fahy, Gregory M ^a   Guan, Na ^b   De Graaf, Inge A M ^b   Tan, Yuansheng ^a   Griffin, Lenetta ^a   Groothuis, Geny M M ^b  

^a 21st Century Medicine Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Cooling rate; Fracturing; Osmotic stress; Thermal shock; Tissue banking; Viability assays; Warming rate

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FORMAMIDE; GLYCEROL; N METHYLACETAMIDE; N METHYLFORMAMIDE; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; UREA;

CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CELL VIABILITY; COOLING; CRYOBIOLOGY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHASE TRANSITION; PRECISION CUT TISSUE SLICE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; REVIEW; TISSUE SLICE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FREEZING; HUMANS; LIVER; RATS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84870543630     PISSN: 00498254     EISSN: 13665928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00498254.2012.728300     Document Type: Review

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