Normothermic machine perfusion reduces bile duct injury and improves biliary epithelial function in rat donor livers

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 994-1005

  op den Dries, Sanna ^a   Karimian, Negin ^a   Westerkamp, Andrie C ^a   Sutton, Michael E ^a   Kuipers, Michiel ^a   Wiersema Buist, Janneke ^a   Ottens, Petra J ^a   Kuipers, Jeroen ^a   Giepmans, Ben N ^a   Leuvenink, Henri G D ^a   Lisman, Ton ^a   Porte, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CASPASE 3; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT INJURY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCULATORY DEATH DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PRESERVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMOTHERMIC MACHINE PERFUSION; ORGAN DONOR; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84981502029     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.24436     Document Type: Article

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