Use of sucrose to diminish pore formation in freeze-dried heart valves

© 2018, The Author(s). Freeze-dried storage of decellularized heart valves provides easy storage and transport for clinical use. Freeze-drying without protectants, however, results in a disrupted histoarchitecture after rehydration. In this study, heart valves were incubated in solutions of various...

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Main Authors: Andres Vasquez-Rivera, Harriette Oldenhof, Daniele Dipresa, Tobias Goecke, Artemis Kouvaka, Fabian Will, Axel Haverich, Sotiris Korossis, Andres Hilfiker, Willem F. Wolkers
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/37005
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