We limited ourselves to six hours because that was, we had some experience from some previous work in our lab and also wanted to see whether like it's more of a yes or no question at that point. So for example, exactly this, we are trying to do two things at once. One is of course to maybe prolong this perfusion time, maybe to like 24 hours or even longer. And then the other aspect would definitely be to even transplant these organs to other animals and then see whether like to which extent this organ has recovered in its function.
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