Listing of protective agents
Published on: Thursday 18, August 2011A listing of chemicals that have been associated with preservation:
acetamide, agaroses, alginates, alanine albumin, ammonium acetate, butanediol, chondroitin sulfate, chloroform, choline, cyclohexanediols**, dextrnas*, diethylene glycol, dimethyl acetamide, dimethyl formamide, dimethyl sulfoxide*, erythritol, lethanol, ethylene glycol*, monomethyl ether, formamide, glucose, glycerol*, glycerophosphate, glycerylmonoacetate, glycine, hydroxyethyl starch*, inositol, lactose, magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate, maltose, mannitol, mannose, methanol, methoxypropanediol, methyl acetamide, methyl formamide, methyl ureas, methyl glucose, methyl glycerol, phenol, pluronicpolyos, olyethylene glycol, polyvinylpyrrolidone*, proline, propanediol*, propylene glycol*, pyridine N-oxide, ribose, serine, sodium bromide, sodium chloride, sodium iodide, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, sodium sulfate, sorbitol, sucrose*, trehalose*, triethylene glycol, trimethylamine acetate, urea, valine and xylose.
* Chemicals that have conferred substantial cryoprotection in a wide variety of biological systems
** Synthetic ice blockers
Taken from: Shalfer, M, Pharmacological considerations in cryopreservation. In Karow AM (ed).Organ Preservation for Transplantation. 2nd edition. Newe York: Marcel Dekker 1981: 177-212 and modfiied and expanded.
Many thanks to Kelvin Brockbank for the listing.
