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Supercooling: An Alternative Biopreservation Scheme

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Exhibit Hall B (Minneapolis Convention Center)
O. Berk Usta1, Basak Uygun2, Korkut Uygun3 and Yeonhee Kim1, (1)Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, (2)Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, (3)Center for Engineering in Medicine, MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

The objective of this study is to extend the viable preservation time of hepatic tissues by sub-zero non-freezing (SZNF) storage in a supercooled preservation medium. The hypothesis here is that the preserved liver viability is correlated strongly to metabolic activity. In this session I will discuss our efforts on this alternative preservation scheme with results from both in-vitro and invivo studies.

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See more of this Session: Poster Session: Bioengineering
See more of this Group/Topical: Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division