Transfusion Medicine Reviews
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 224-233 , July 1997

Parameters of cell freezing: Implications for the cryopreservation of stem cells

  • A. Hubel

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Allison Hubel, PhD, Biomedical Engineering Center, University of Minnesota, Box 107 UMHC, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

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† Supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant P01 HD 32652 and Baxter Healthcare Corporation.

PII: S0887-7963(97)80043-0

doi: 10.1053/tmrv.1997.0110224

Transfusion Medicine Reviews
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 224-233 , July 1997

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