A Bioartificial System Acts as "Dialysis" For Failing Livers in Pigs (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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A Bioartificial System Acts as "Dialysis" For Failing Livers in Pigs (2 of 2)

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A microscopic image of the carriers used to culture liver progenitor-like cells in the bioartificial liver. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jul. 8, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by W.-J. Li at Jiaotong University School of Medicine in Shanghai, China; and colleagues was titled, "An extracorporeal bioartificial liver embedded with 3D-layered human liver progenitor-like cells relieves acute liver failure in pigs."

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[Credit: W.-J. Li <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2020)]

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