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. 2020 Aug 12;10:13605. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-70707-6

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Convective cooling and warming of large volumes of StemCell Keep. Convective cooling for freezing (a) and convective warming for thawing (b) were carried out by immersing the glass vials in liquid nitrogen and a 37 °C water bath, respectively. Representative data of temperatures at the centre of vials are shown. Green, 1-mL system; yellow, 8-mL system; blue, 20-mL system; red, 30-mL system. A representative photo of ice ball formation induced by devitrification of StemCell Keep during convective warming is also shown in (b). (c) Effects of convective cooling and warming on the viability of hiPSCs. After freezing and thawing, cell viability was assayed using a cell viability imaging kit based on Hoechst 33342 for live cells and SYTOX green nucleic acid stain for dead cells. Data are expressed as the mean ± SD of three independent experiments. *P < 0.05 compared with the 0.2-mL system (gold standard).