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Effects of taurine on liver preservation in UW solution with consecutive ischemic rewarming in the isolated perfused rat liver
Taurine (2-aminoethane sulfonic acid) is a physiologic amino acid involved in cellular osmoregulation in various species including man. This study was intended to compare the respective effects of cold storage...
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Heparin and phentolamine combined, rather than heparin alone, improves hepatic microvascular procurement in a non-heart-beating donor rat-model
Improvement of organ procurement from non-heart-beating donors (NHBDs) could increase the donor organ pool for liver transplantation. Whether anti-coagulative and anti-vasospastic substances can improve hepat...
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Kidney transplantation from non-heart-beating donors after oxygenated low-flow machine perfusion preservation with histidine–tryptophan–ketoglutarate solution
The aim of this study was to determine the potential benefit of aerobic machine preservation (MP) with non-colloidal histidine–tryptophan–ketoglutarate (HTK) solution compared with MP with Belzer machine perfu...