DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL TO INVESTIGATE RED BLOOD CELL SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS AFTER CRYOPRESERVATION

Maintaining cell surface properties after freezing and thawing, characterized in particular by the surface potential and associated with it cell ability to intercellular adhesion, could be used as a characteristic of successful cryopreservation.

This study was conducted to research applying different erythrocytes freezing modes and analyses the regimes cryopreservation effect on the cell surface charge and adhesion to microorganisms.

Human erythrocytes frozen by three modes. In order to determine adhesion index was used dried bacterial cells of S. thermophilus. The surface charge of erythrocytes was evaluated using Alcian blue cationic dye.

The results showed the significant decrease in the lactobacillus adhesion to erythrocytes frozen glycerol and 1,2-propanediol. After erythrocytes were freezen with glycerol and 1,2-propanediol, the cationic dye binding to erythrocytes significantly reduced. AB binding to erythrocytes frozen with PEG-1500 does not differ from control data.

Erythrocytes frozen with PEG-1500 mantained surface properties after thawing better, compared to erythrocytes cryopreserved by other methods.