Tissue Preservation -- methods -- United States. : Case studies of existing human tissue repositories : "best practices" for a biospecimen resource for the genomic and proteomic era / Elisa Eiseman [and others]
The process by which a tissue or aggregate of cells is kept alive outside of the organism from which it was derived (i.e., kept from decay by means of a chemical agent, cooling, or a fluid substitute that mimics the natural state within the organism)
