Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 41, Issue 1 , Pages 36-39 , January 2009

The New Strategy of Liver Transplantation From Marginal Donors Using Serine Protease Inhibitor

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 This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan, and from the Ministry of Welfare of Japan, and by a grant from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine.

PII: S0041-1345(08)01610-2

doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.09.066

Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 41, Issue 1 , Pages 36-39 , January 2009