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- noun
protection ofbiological tissue from the effects ofcold by means of acryoprotectant
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It is not yet known whether aquaporins play a role in accelerating the large cellular water losses that must accompany freezing for colligative cryoprotection to be effective.
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This occurs primarily by the mechanism of colligative cryoprotection, as in terrestrial animals.
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The mechanism of cryoprotection appears to be simple colligative action, as in cryopreservation, with the additional benefit of stabilization of protein structure against low temperature denaturation.
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A multicomponent cryoprotection scheme is common, to reduce the concentrations of any given cryoprotectant to sub-toxic levels.
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LM, Kale VP, Limaye LS (2005) Prevention of apoptosis as a possible mechanism behind improved cryoprotection of hematopoietic cells by catalase and trehalose.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sangeetha V. M et al. 2010
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For cryoprotection before freezing, the cells were dipped into a solution of 20%
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Coralie Spiegelhalter et al. 2010
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With the cryoprotection step, this delay was about
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Coralie Spiegelhalter et al. 2010
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For the dynamic study of the GFP-MTM1 needles formation, we obtained efficient freezing without cryoprotection (not shown).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Coralie Spiegelhalter et al. 2010
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When the number of cells exposed to this concentration varies, so does the additive's ability to provide cryoprotection (e.g. by stabilize the membrane).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Dity Natan et al. 2009
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