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Characterizing the cryobiological response of a mouse cardiac endothelial cell line to interrupted slow cooling (graded freezing)

2025· article· en· W7116781244 on OpenAlexafffund
Elham Ashrafi, Janet A.W. Elliott

Bibliographic record

VenueCryobiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsCryopreservationCryoprotectantDimethyl sulfoxideMatrigelEndothelial stem cellEndotheliumCell cultureNitric oxideFluorescence microscope

Abstract

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Mouse cardiac endothelial cells play a critical role in cardiovascular research and disease; hence, high quality cryopreservation of this cell type is necessary to provide on-demand access to the cells, quality control, and consistent outcomes between different experiments and batches. However, the cryopreservation of cardiac endothelial cells has not been studied as much as other endothelial cells. The objective of this study was to characterize the cryobiological response of an immortalized line of mouse cardiac endothelial cells in suspension using an interrupted slow cooling approach (graded freezing) and to validate cryopreservation protocols that provide high post-thaw viability and function. Three different cryopreservation protocols were validated using different cryoprotectant solutions: i) 10 % dimethyl sulfoxide + 90 % fetal bovine serum, ii) 5 % dimethyl sulfoxide + 6 % hydroxyethyl starch in complete growth medium, and iii) 10 % glycerol in complete growth medium; all three protocols resulted in high post-thaw membrane integrity assessed using dual fluorescent dye Syto13/GelRed. Two functional assays: i) tube forming on Matrigel representing angiogenesis and ii) nitric oxide synthesis using DAF-FM (4-amino-5-methylamino-2',7'-difluorofluorescein) fluorescent dye revealed that cryopreserved cells retained comparable post-thaw function to non-cryopreserved cells. This study provides practical insight into successful cryopreservation of mouse cardiac endothelial cells.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.101
Threshold uncertainty score0.516

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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