Development of a rat forelimb vascularized composite allograft (VCA) perfusion protocol

• Casie A. Pendexter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0484-6997

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• Omar Haque,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0096-3643

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• Mohammadreza Mojoudi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammadreza Mojoudi, Sarah Maggipinto

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sarah Maggipinto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammadreza Mojoudi, Sarah Maggipinto

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7334-7281

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• Marion Goutard,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dept. Surgery, Center for Transplant Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Service de Chirurgie Plastique, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

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• Simona Baicu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sylvatica Biotech Inc., North Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Alexandre G. Lellouch,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dept. Surgery, Center for Transplant Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Service de Chirurgie Plastique, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery Groupe Almaviva Santé, Clinique de l’Alma, IAOPC, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8191-8662

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• James F. Markmann,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dept. Surgery, Center for Transplant Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Gerald Brandacher,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7790-441X

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• Heidi Yeh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dept. Surgery, Center for Transplant Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Shannon N. Tessier,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Curtis Cetrulo ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: CCETRULO@mgh.harvard.edu (CC); KUYGUN@mgh.harvard.edu (KU)

  Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dept. Surgery, Center for Transplant Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Korkut Uygun

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: CCETRULO@mgh.harvard.edu (CC); KUYGUN@mgh.harvard.edu (KU)

  Affiliations Department Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-7860

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