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P.D., M.M., D.E., D.B., L.B.B., M.H., M.J.S., P.R.v.R. and P.-A.C. designed the perfusion machine and established the perfusion protocol, performed the perfusion experiments, generated and interpreted the data, and wrote the manuscript.
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Dutkowski, P., Mueller, M., Eshmuminov, D. et al. Reply to: Lactate measurements in an integrated perfusion machine for human livers. Nat Biotechnol 38, 1263–1264 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0627-8
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