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Liver Support Through Hepatic Tissue Engineering

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Tissue Engineering

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Tissue engineering is a relatively new field which brings together several disciplines, including bioengineering, molecular and cellular biology and clinical medicine, with the ultimate goal of producing tissue or organ substitutes. The spectrum of applications of tissue engineering is indeed wide from artificial skin substitutes (Bell et al., 1991) and transplantable cell-polymer matrices (Cima et al., 1991) to bioartificial organs such as the bioartificial liver and bioartificial pancreas (Yarmush et al.,1992a; 1992b; Colton and Avgoustiniatos, 1992). All of these technologies have a number of common aspects, such as (1) the identification of reliable and efficient sources of cells and isolation of cells from tissues, (2) means of culture and preservation of cells, and (3) tissue design.

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  1. Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Burns Institute, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Mehmet Toner, Ronald G. Tompkins & Martin L. Yarmush

  2. Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA

    Martin L. Yarmush

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  1. Marine Biological Laboratory, 1248 Rt. 28A, Unit 6, 02534, Cataumet, MA, USA

    Eugene Bell

  2. Tissue Engineering Inc., 1248 Rt. 28A, Unit 6, 02534, Cataumet, MA, USA

    Eugene Bell

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Toner, M., Tompkins, R.G., Yarmush, M.L. (1993). Liver Support Through Hepatic Tissue Engineering. In: Bell, E. (eds) Tissue Engineering. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8186-4_9

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