Cryoprotection???

Ken Muldrew kmuldrew at acs.ucalgary.ca
Mon Feb 1 13:28:23 EST 1999


Neal Melvin <nrmelvin at acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:

>How does sucrose cryoprotect a tissue sample??? In other words, what
>does the sucrose due to the tissue to make it less vulnerable to
>freezing artifacts?

It dehydrates the cell and reduces the extracellular salt
concentration colligatively during freezing.

Ken Muldrew
kmuldrew at acs.ucalgary.ca




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