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- Title
Alginate Hydrogel Microencapsulation Inhibits Devitrification and Enables Large-Volume Low-CPA Cell Vitrification.
- Authors
Huang, Haishui; Choi, Jung Kyu; Rao, Wei; Zhao, Shuting; Agarwal, Pranay; Zhao, Gang; He, Xiaoming
- Abstract
Cryopreservation of stem cells is important to meet their ever-increasing demand by the burgeoning cell-based medicine. The conventional slow freezing for stem cell cryopreservation suffers from inevitable cell injury associated with ice formation and the vitrification (i.e., no visible ice formation) approach is emerging as a new strategy for cell cryopreservation. A major challenge to cell vitrification is intracellular ice formation (IIF, a lethal event to cells) induced by devitrification (i.e., formation of visible ice in previously vitrified solution) during warming the vitrified cells at cryogenic temperature back to super-zero temperatures. Consequently, high and toxic concentrations of penetrating cryoprotectants (i.e., high CPAs, up to ≈8 m) and/or limited sample volumes (up to ≈2.5 μL) have been used to minimize IIF during vitrification. It is revealed that alginate hydrogel microencapsulation can effectively inhibit devitrification during warming. The data show that if ice formation were minimized during cooling, IIF is negligible in alginate hydrogel microencapsulated cells during the entire cooling and warming procedure of vitrification. This enables vitrification of pluripotent and multipotent stem cells with up to ≈4 times lower concentration of penetrating CPAs (up to 2 m, low CPA) in up to ≈100 times larger sample volume (up to ≈250 μL, large volume).
- Subjects
MICROENCAPSULATION; DEVITRIFICATION; CRYOPRESERVATION of cells; STEM cells; ALGINATES; HYDROGELS
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, Vol 25, Issue 44, p6939
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.201503047