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ArticleNature biotechnology2019

Supercooling extends preservation time of human livers.

Reinier J de Vries, Shannon N Tessier, Peony D Banik, Sonal Nagpal, Stephanie E J Cronin, Sinan Ozer, Ehab O A Hafiz, Thomas M van Gulik, Martin L Yarmush, James F Markmann and 3 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Cryopreservation of biological materials: applications and economic perspectives.In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal · 2026
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  12. Revealing the potential of non-transplanted donor organs: a comparative analysis in the Eurotransplant region.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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  13. Thermodynamic Principles of Emerging Cryopreservation Technologies.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  15. Anti-Icing Organogel Enables Quasi-Homogeneous Supercooling Preservation of Mouse Hearts.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Reinier J de VriesCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Shannon N TessierCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Peony D BanikCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Sonal NagpalCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Stephanie E J CroninCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Sinan OzerCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Ehab O A HafizCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1551-4309
Thomas M van GulikDepartment of Surgery, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Martin L YarmushCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
James F MarkmannCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Mehmet TonerCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Heidi YehCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Korkut UygunCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. kuygun@mgh.harvard.edu.

Funding

High subzero preservation of liver for transplantationR01DK114506 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TONER, MEHMET, UYGUN, KORKUT · 2017 to 2025
$4.4M
Metabolic Modeling for Cadaveric Organ ResuscitationR01DK096075 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI UYGUN, KORKUT, YEH, HEIDI · 2012 to 2022
$3.9M
Expanding the Liver Transplant Organ Pool through Ex Vivo Liver PerfusionR01DK107875 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MARKMANN, JAMES FRANCIS, UYGUN, KORKUT · 2016 to 2020
$2.8M
High subzero heart preservation: from zebrafish to mammalsR01HL157803 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Shannon Noella Tessier · 2021 to 2026
$2.8M
Whole heart suspended animation: leveraging the zebrafish to solve the organ shortageR00HL143149 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TESSIER, SHANNON NOELLA · 2021 to 2023
$747k
Equilibrium sub-cooling for non-frozen banking of human liversR21EB023031 · NIBIB · SYLVATICA BIOTECH, INC. · PI TAYLOR, MICHAEL JOHN · 2016 to 2017
$571k
Whole heart suspended animation: leveraging the zebrafish to solve the organ shortageK99HL143149 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TESSIER, SHANNON NOELLA · 2019 to 2020
$215k
NHLBI NIH HHS K99 HL143149NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL143149NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL157803NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB023031NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK096075NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK107875NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK114506
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inability to preserve vascular organs beyond several hours contributes to the scarcity of organs for transplantation

Indexed as

Cold TemperatureHumansLiverOrgan PreservationOrgan Preservation SolutionsPerfusionTissue SurvivalOrgan Preservation Solutions

Identifiers

PMID31501557
PMCPMC6776681

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