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Recovery of Preservation-Injured Primary Human Hepatocytes and Nonparenchymal Cells to Tissuelike Structures in Large-Scale Bioreactors for Liver Support: An Initial Transmission Electron Microscopy Study

Jörg C. Gerlach Department of Surgery, Charité-Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Katrin Zeilinger Department of Surgery, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Alexander Grebe Department of Surgery, Charité-Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Gero Puhl Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Gesine Pless Department of Surgery, Charité-Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Igor Sauer Department of Surgery, Charité-Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Andreas Grünwald Department of Surgery, Charité-Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Norbert Schnoy Institute of Pathology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Christian Müller Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Charité-Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Peter Neuhaus Department of Surgery, Charité-Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Pages 83-92 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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