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cryoprotectant

Meaning of "cryoprotectant" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CRYOPROTECTANT

ˌkraɪəʊprəˈtektənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRYOPROTECTANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cryoprotectant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CRYOPROTECTANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cryoprotectant

A cryoprotectant is a substance used to protect biological tissue from freezing damage. Arctic and Antarctic insects, fish and amphibians create cryoprotectants in their bodies to minimize freezing damage during cold winter periods. Cryoprotectants are also used to preserve living materials in the study of biology and to preserve food products.

Definition of cryoprotectant in the English dictionary

The definition of cryoprotectant in the dictionary is an agent which prevents cell damage caused by cryopreservation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRYOPROTECTANT

actant · annectent · attractant · chemoattractant · disinfectant · expectant · extractant · humectant · inexpectant · infectant · injectant · interactant · octant · protectant · reactant · reductant · reluctant · respectant · surfactant · unexpectant

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRYOPROTECTANT

cryonic · cryonics · cryophilic · cryophorus · cryophysics · cryophyte · cryoplankton · cryoprecipitate · cryopreserve · cryoprobe · cryoprotective · cryoscope · cryoscopic · cryoscopies · cryoscopy · cryostat · cryostatic · cryosurgeon · cryosurgery · cryosurgical

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRYOPROTECTANT

accountant · assistant · constant · consultant · contestant · distant · habitant · hesitant · important · instant · militant · montant · mutant · on the instant · Protestant · resistant · resultant · transductant · unreluctant · water-resistant

Synonyms and antonyms of cryoprotectant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cryoprotectant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRYOPROTECTANT

Find out the translation of cryoprotectant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cryoprotectant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cryoprotectant» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

冷冻保护剂
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

crioprotector
570 millions of speakers
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English

cryoprotectant
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

cryoprotectant
380 millions of speakers
ar

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cryoprotectant
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

криопротектор
278 millions of speakers
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cryoprotectant
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

cryoprotectant
260 millions of speakers
fr

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cryoprotecteur
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Cryoprotectant
190 millions of speakers
de

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Gefrierschutzmittel
180 millions of speakers
ja

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抗凍結剤
130 millions of speakers
ko

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동결 방지제
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Cryoprotectant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chất bảo vệ lạnh
80 millions of speakers
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cryoprotectant
75 millions of speakers
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क्रायोप्रोटेक्टेंट
75 millions of speakers
tr

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dölveriminin
70 millions of speakers
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cryoprotectant
65 millions of speakers
pl

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krioprotektantem
50 millions of speakers
uk

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кріопротектор
40 millions of speakers
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crioprotector
30 millions of speakers
el

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κρυοπροστάτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cryoprotectant
14 millions of speakers
sv

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kryoskyddande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cryoprotectant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cryoprotectant

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cryoprotectant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRYOPROTECTANT»

Discover the use of cryoprotectant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cryoprotectant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols: Structure ...
Methods 3.1. Cryoprotection In order to prevent ordered crystalline ice forming during flash cooling, a crystal must be cooled so fast that any water in it is vitrified. For pure water this time is on the order of 10–5 s. The addition of cryoprotectant ...
Sylvie Doublié, 2007
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Cryopreservation of Plant Cells and Organs
However if a cryoprotectant was present at a concentration of I w. this critical volume would not develop until an osmolality in excess of 5 Osm had been reached. At slow rates of cooling this would provide protection to only about - l0° C. By ...
Kartha, 1985
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Cardiac Reconstructions with Allograft Tissues
It is for this reason that it is best to always add (slowly) cryoprotectant solutions to cells or tissues than to add cells or tissues to cryoprotectant solutions. The warming rate may also play a major role in the formation of tissue fractures or cracks.
Richard A. Hopkins, K.E. Karlson, G.A. Karlson, 2005
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Principles of Tissue Engineering
Shrink–swell behavior of cells during exposure to a penetrating cryoprotectant additive (CPA). The cell volume initially decreases due to osmotically driven water loss, then increases as cryoprotectant and water enter the cell. Cell damage can ...
Robert Lanza, Robert Langer, Joseph P. Vacanti, 2000
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Male Infertility: Sperm Diagnosis, Management and Delivery
Cryoprotectant agents can grossly be divided into permeating and non- permeating cryoprotectants. The cryoprotectant is not added as a pure substance but as part of a buffered solution, called the cryoprotectant medium (CPM), containing ...
Jayant Mehta, Bryan Woodward, 2013
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Tissue Engineered Medical Products (TEMPs)
chemicals with cryoprotectant properties reveals no common structural features. These chemicals are usually divided into two classes: 1) intracellular cryoprotectants with low molecular weights that permeate cells, and 2) extracellular ...
Eliane Schutte, Grace Lee Picciolo, David S. Kaplan, 2004
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Vitrification in Assisted Reproduction: A User's Manual and ...
To induce vitrification in liquid nitrogen, the solution must contain a high concentration of cryoprotectant.2 In vitrification, the selection of cryoprotec- tants requires extreme care because their concentration can be as high as 6mol/L, which can ...
Michael Tucker, Juergen Liebermann, 2007
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Frozen Food Science and Technology
the effectiveness of the cryoprotectant. Examples of cryoprotectants are monosaccharides, disaccharides, glycerol, sorbitol, phosphate salts, ascorbic acid, carboxymethyl cellulose, gums and trehalose (Anese and Gormley, 1996; Love, 1966; ...
Judith Evans, 2009
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Practical Transfusion Medicine
Sterility testing must be performed on the product on arrival and after the addition of the cryoprotectant solution. It is also wise to collect a sterility sample from the prepared cryoprotectant solution to ensure reagents used are sterile.
Michael F. Murphy, Derwood H. Pamphilon, Nancy M. Heddle, 2013
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Problems of Cryobiology
mass, which organizes a link between the original amount of the cryoprotectant considering its concentration and its finite concentration in lhe aqueous phase of the suspension. where (..„ and Cf are the original and finite concentrations in the  ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRYOPROTECTANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cryoprotectant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Preserved in vivo reconstitution ability of PBSCs cryopreserved for a …
This method was originally developed to store unfractionated bone marrow cells in a cryoprotectant consisting of 6% hydroxyethylstarch and ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
2
How Britney Spears bought her immortality for $200000
Certain frogs and other amphibians are known to produce to a substance called cryoprotectant that preserves their organs when lakes freeze ... «The New Daily, Jun 15»
3
Conjugated linoleic acid improves oocyte cryosurvival through …
For water permeability, 200Â mM sucrose was used, whereas for the cryoprotectant permeability, a 10Â % solution of both EG and DMSO was ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jun 15»
4
Memories emerge intact from cryogenic resurrection machine
After mastering this new task, the worms were bathed in a glycerol-based cryoprotectant solution and put into to a deep freeze. When the ... «ExtremeTech, May 15»
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h+ Media | ALK5 A Single Drug Simultaneously Rejuvenates …
Brains were then sectioned at 40 μM using a vibratome and stored in a glycerol-based cryoprotectant at −20°C until further analysis by ... «h+ Magazine, May 15»
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Wager on getting second shot at life
Technically, embryos are not actually frozen, but vitrified, which involves first substituting the water inside their cells with a cryoprotectant or ... «The Straits Times, May 15»
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Coveney announces almost €18m package of investment in fishery …
... investigate the use of sodium caseinate as a cryoprotectant in frozen cistí mara and to compare breaded cistí mara with cod/salmon fishcakes ... «Irish Times, Mar 15»
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A wasp of another type
They mature as fertile, with fat stores and cryoprotectant carbohydrate compounds (antifreeze) to aid their over-winter survival. The final, or ... «Victoria Advocate, Mar 15»
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Dormancy And Deep Freeze: Insects In Suspended Animation
And a wide variety of overwintering insects produce the cryoprotectant chemical glycerol, which lowers the freezing point of their body fluids. «MTPR, Feb 15»
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Preserving the genetic diversity of livestock species
Cryoprotectant outside the cells formed glass, as expected, but something about the oocyte is resistant to preservation. In contrast, the bovine ... «Phys.Org, Jan 15»
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