Charitable State-Controlled Foundation Human Tissue and Cell Research: Ethic and Legal Aspects in the Supply of Surgically Removed Human Tissue For Research in the Academic and Commercial Sector in Germany.

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Published in Cell Tissue Bank on January 01, 2003

Authors

Wolfgang E. Thasler1, Thomas S. Weiss, Kerrin Schillhorn, Peter-Tobias Stoll, Bernhard Irrgang, Karl-Walter Jauch

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Livercell Research, University of Regensburg Hospital, D-93042 Regensburg, Germany; Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern LM University of Munich, D-81377 Munich, Germany; Author for correspondence (Tel.: +49-941 944 6837; Fax: +49-941 944 6838; E-mail: wolfgang.thasler@gch.med.uni-muenchen.de)

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