Artificial liver apparatus and method
CA 2201159 A1 · Owner: Xenogenex, Inc. · Inventors: Demetriou, Achilles; Myers, Edward F.; Li, Albert P.
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Artificial liver devices and methods for using the devices to purify a biological fluid are disclosed. The methods include the use of living hepatocytes (23) which are either unattached or attached to inert carriers and suspended in a cell culture medium which circulates in the devices with the hepatocytes (23). Blood or plasma passes on one side (7') of semi-permeable membranes, on the other side (7) of which is the cell culture medium and across which is a concentration and/or pressure gradient. Solutes diffusing across the membrane into the cell culture medium are metabolized by the hepatocytes (23) and/or captured by additional removal means (40). Those undesirable substances …
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- Filed September 27, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 27, 2014.
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