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ArticleTissue engineering. Part C, Methods2016

Vitreous Cryopreservation of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells with Low Concentration of Cryoprotective Agents for Vascular Tissue Engineering.

Yuanyuan Zheng, Gang Zhao, Fazil Panhwar, Xiaoming He

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Article in Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yuanyuan Zheng1 Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei, Anhui, China .
Gang Zhao1 Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei, Anhui, China .
Fazil Panhwar1 Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei, Anhui, China .
Xiaoming He3 Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University , Columbus, Ohio.
University of Science and Technology of China · CNAnhui Provincial Hospital · CNThe Ohio State University · US

Funding

Microfluidic encapsulation of ovarian follicles for biomimetic 3D culture andcryopreservationR01EB023632 · NIBIB · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI HE, XIAOMING · 2017 to 2020
$1.6M
Microencapsulation of oocytes for low-CPA (cryoprotectant) vitrificationR01EB012108 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI HE, XIAOMING · 2011 to 2014
$1.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB012108NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB023632
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryopreservation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) is important to tissue engineering applications and the study of the role of endothelial cells in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The traditional methods for cryopreservation by vitrification (cooling samples to a cryogenic temperature without apparent freezing) using high concentration of cryoprotective agents (CPAs) and slow freezing are suboptimal due to the severe toxicity of high concentration of CPAs and ice formation-induced cryoinjuries, respectively. In this study, we developed a method to cryopreserve HUVECs by vitrification with low concentration of CPAs. This is achieved by optimizing the CPAs and using highly thermally conductive quartz capillary (QC) to contain samples for vitrification. The latter minimizes the thermal mass to create ultra-fast cooling/warming rates. Our data demonstrate that HUVECs can be vitrified in the QC using 1.4 mol/L ethylene glycol and 1.1 mol/L dimethyl sulfoxide with more than 90% viability. Moreover, this method significantly improves the attachment efficiency of the cryopreserved HUVECs. The attached cells post-cryopreservation proliferate similarly to fresh cells. Therefore, this study may provide an effective vitrification technique to bank HUVECs for vascular tissue engineering and other applications.

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Cells, CulturedCell SurvivalCryopreservationCryoprotective AgentsFreezingHumansHuman Umbilical Vein Endothelial CellsTemperatureTissue EngineeringVitrificationCryoprotective Agents

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PMID27673413
PMCPMC5079420
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