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Storage, Processing and Preservation

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Essentials of Tissue Banking

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Tissues can malfunction as a result of numerous processes including congenital malformation, disease and damage. Most tissues in the human body have a limited capacity for regeneration, in response to such malfunction.

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  1. Head of Tissue Services, NHSBT Tissue Services, Liverpool, L24 8RB, UK

    John N. Kearney

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  1. Service, Scottish National Blood Transfusion, Ellens Glen Road, Edinburgh, EH17 7QT, United Kingdom

    George Galea

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Kearney, J.N. (2010). Storage, Processing and Preservation. In: Galea, G. (eds) Essentials of Tissue Banking. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9142-0_7

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