Repairing Tissues for Transplant after Death
October 18, 2022 | Terry Sharrer
“The team from the Yale University School of Medicine used a computer-controlled machine called OrganEx to simulate both heart and lung function. It pumped a perfusate—a liquid mix of synthetic hemoglobin, antibiotics, and molecules to protect cells and prevent blood clots—through the pigs’ entire bodies one hour after they died. Sensors monitored circulation and measured pressures within the pigs’ arteries in real time.” [note: Alexis Carrel kept an embryonic chicken’s heart functioning in a perfusion chamber from 1912 to 1939]. MORE
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