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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hugo O Jauregui, Providence, RI (US);
Assignee:
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-1 ; 435240241 ; 435240242 ; 435240243 ; 435284 ; 435285 ; 435311 ; 604-4 ;
Abstract
A perfusion device to grow and maintain hepatocytes including a chamber having a perfusion inlet and a perfusion outlet, a semipermeable membrane in the chamber defining separate perfusion and hepatocyte compartments, and hepatocytes in the hepatocyte compartment attached via oligosaccharide-lectin recognition linkage to a biopolymer support in the hepatocyte compartment.