Safety of placental, umbilical cord and fetal membrane explants after cryopreservation

  • V. Prokopyuk Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • O. Prokopyuk Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • I. Musatova Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • N. Shevchenko Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • A. Roenko Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • E. Terehova Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • V. Volina Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Keywords: placenta, umbilical cord, fetal membrane explants, cryopreservation

Abstract

There have been studied morphological safety and functional state of the explants of human placenta, umbilical cord and fetal membranes by vital staining techniques using the MTT and resazurin reduction tests, level of glucose in incubation medium, activity of lactate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase before and after cryopreservation. It has been found that proposed program of cryopreservation allows keeping a high level of viability of the explants of placenta, umbilical cord and fetal membranes, the most informative methods of assessing the safety of these biological objects before and after cryopreservation are method of vital staining, determination of glucose content in incubation medium, MTT-test and resazurin reduction test.

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Published
2015-05-31
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Prokopyuk V, Prokopyuk O, Musatova I, Shevchenko N, Roenko A, Terehova E, Volina V. Safety of placental, umbilical cord and fetal membrane explants after cryopreservation. JCOT [Internet]. 31May2015 [cited 7Oct.2026];3(1):34-8. Available from: https://jcot.transplantology.org/index.php?journal=jcot&page=article&op=view&path[]=2015-3-1_3