Definition of cryopreserve in English:
cryopreserve
verb ˌkrʌɪəʊprɪˈzəːvˌkrīōprəˈzərv
[with object]Biology Medicine Preserve (cells or tissues) by cooling them below the freezing point of water.
several major problems hinder attempts to cryopreserve large mammalian organs
Example sentencesExamples
- This stage is usually considered to be a characteristic of fresh, or cryopreserved tissues, because other processing methods (fresh-frozen or freeze-dried) are considered to have already caused cell death in donor tissues.
- Moreover, tissue architecture is often compromised and background levels are higher in cryopreserved tissues, making immunohistochemical interpretation difficult if expression levels are low.
- Yeast can be frozen and revived, allowing samples from each population to be cryopreserved at intervals, and then competed against their ancestors to provide precise and reproducible estimates of fitness.
- One technique to potentially preserve fertility is to freeze, or cryopreserve, ovarian tissue for later transplantation, which has now been carried out in about 10 women.
- Tissue was cryopreserved as soon as possible after surgical excision and stored in liquid nitrogen vapor.
Derivatives
noun
Biology Medicine To date, the only publicised attempt at human ovarian autotransplantation after cryopreservation was unsuccessful because folliculogenesis returned only for a short time.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was excised, confirmed with an incisional biopsy, and sent for cryopreservation.
- These activities include development of new and lower cost methods for cryopreservation, new methods for testing for pathogens, and new methods for ‘cloning’ rats by nuclear transfer techniques.
- Men who are about to start chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease are usually offered semen cryopreservation.
- A network of zoos and aquariums specializing in new reproductive tech (in vitro fertilization, cryopreservation, embryo transfer) and hoping to return those creatures born of assisted reproduction to the wild.