Maintenance of Existing Controlled Rate Freezers
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NHSBT have requirements to cryopreserve haemopoietic stem cells for transplantation and Tissue Services cryopreserve processed tissue allografts (such as skin, arteries and heart valves).
To ensure cell viability, the cells / tissues have to be frozen at a controlled rate prior to storing in vapour phase nitrogen at a temperature below-150°C.
Rapid freezing would cause cell/tissue damage and result in the loss of cell/tissue viability; as such the products must be slowed at a rate no quicker than -2°C /minute until they are below -40°C.
A controlled rate freezer is the best way of achieving the slow rate of freeze required.
NHSBT currently have 28 controlled rate freezers across 6 sites that require a maintenance contract.
What the supplier must deliver
To ensure cell viability, the cells /
To ensure cell viability, the cells / tissues have to be frozen at a controlled rate prior to storing in vapour phase nitrogen at a temperature below-150°C.
Rapid freezing would cause cell/tissue damage
Rapid freezing would cause cell/tissue damage and result in the loss of cell/tissue viability; as such the products must be slowed at a rate no quicker than -2°C /minute until they are below -40°C.
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