title: A cryopreservative procedure for storing cultivated and uncultivated amniotic fluid cells in liquid nitrogen.
abstract: The cryopreservation of cultured and uncultured amniotic fluid cells is of special importance in prenatal diagnosis. The freezing procedure presented gave a cell recovery of about 95% for cultivated human amniotic fluid cells combined with a rapid appearance of mitosis after inoculation.
mesh_terms: D000653:Amniotic Fluid / Q000166:cytology*; D002470:Cell Survival; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D005615:Freezing; D006801:Humans; D009584:Nitrogen; D011247:Pregnancy; D011309:Preservation, Biological / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D009584:Nitrogen