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Development of a hybrid liver-support device

L. De Bartolo Research Institute on Membranes and Modelling of Chemical Reactors, IRMERC-CNR, c/o University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy;
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A. Bader Section for Tissue Engineering, Institute for Anatomy, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany;; Society for Biotechnological Research, Braunschweig, Germany
Pages 123-134 | Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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