Aqueous solution for suspending and storing cells, especially erthrocytes

US4572899A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Biotest-Serum-Institut GmbH

Inventors

• Wolfram Hubert Walker · Neuenstadt am Kocher, DE
• Karlheinz Ganshirt · Dreieich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 1983
• Grant date: Feb 25, 1986
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/108331
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An aqueous solution for suspending and storing cells, especially erythrocytes, and containing sodium chloride, glucose or fructose, adenine, and a sugar alcohol, the sugar alcohol being sorbitol or xylitol is employed to further improve the storage time and hence the survival rate of the cells and even reduce the hemolysis rate of erythrocytes in packed red blood cells.