Figure 5.
Efficacy of the vitrification with hepatocytes. (a) Yields of the loaded cells. (b) Viability of hepatocytes after vitrification. (c) The levels of albumin secretion are 3.6 ± 0.5 μg/ml (Control) and 3.1 ± 0.2 μg/ml (After vitrification). (d) The levels of urea synthesis are 27.9 ± 1.2 μg/ml (Control) and 20.7 ± 3.7 μg/ml (After vitrification). Five sets of control and vitrified cell suspension in microcapillary were loaded each 96-well for the measurements of four separate experiments.