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Broderick, Timmy. After ‘Absurdly Long’ 100-Day Freeze, Rat Kidneys Were Successfully Transplanted. Scientific American. (2023-09-01).
Irving, Michael. Organs cryogenically frozen, thawed and transplanted for first time. New Atlas. (2023-06-25).
University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Researchers perform first successful transplant of functional cryopreserved rat kidney. (2023-06-23).
Cornwall, Warren. Frozen in time: Scientists are learning how to cryopreserve living tissues, organs, and even whole organisms, then bring them back to life. Science. (2023-06-21). doi: 10.1126/science.adj3555.
Renault, Marion. Scientists successfully unfroze rat organs and transplanted them — a ‘historic’ step that could someday transform transplant medicine. STAT. (2023-06-21).
Han, Z., Rao, J.S., Gangwar, L. et al. Vitrification and nanowarming enable long-term organ cryopreservation and life-sustaining kidney transplantation in a rat model. Nat Commun 14, 3407 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38824-8
Sharma, A., Lee, C.Y., Namsrai, BE. et al. Cryopreservation of Whole Rat Livers by Vitrification and Nanowarming. Ann Biomed Eng 51, 566–577 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-022-03064-2
Zhan, L., Rao, J.S., Sethia, N. et al. Pancreatic islet cryopreservation by vitrification achieves high viability, function, recovery and clinical scalability for transplantation. Nat Med 28, 798–808 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01718-1
Z. Gao, B. Namsrai, Z. Han, P. Joshi, J. S. Rao, V. Ravikumar, A. Sharma, H. L. Ring, D. Idiyatullin, E. C. Magnuson, P. A. Iaizzo, E. G. Tolkacheva, M. Garwood, Y. Rabin, M. Etheridge, E. B. Finger, J. C. Bischof, Vitrification and Rewarming of Magnetic Nanoparticle-Loaded Rat Hearts. Adv. Mater. Technol. 2022, 7, 2100873. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202100873
Bojic, S., Murray, A., Bentley, B.L. et al. Winter is coming: the future of cryopreservation. BMC Biol 19, 56 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00976-8
Michael J. Taylor, Bradley P. Weegman, Simona C. Baicu, Sebastian E. Giwa; New Approaches to Cryopreservation of Cells, Tissues, and Organs. Transfus Med Hemother 4 June 2019; 46 (3): 197–215. https://doi.org/10.1159/000499453
Fahy GM, Wowk B, Pagotan R, Chang A, Phan J, Thomson B, Phan L. Physical and biological aspects of renal vitrification. Organogenesis. 2009 Jul; 5(3):167-75. doi: 10.4161/org.5.3.9974. PMID: 20046680; PMCID: PMC2781097.
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