**PROGRESS IN HEMODIALYSIS – FROM EMERGENT BIOTECHNOLOGY TO CLINICAL PRACTICE**

Edited by **Angelo Carpi, Carlo Donadio**  and **Gianfranco Tramonti**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/878 Edited by Angelo Carpi, Carlo Donadio and Gianfranco Tramonti

#### **Contributors**

Mukadder Mollaoğlu, Zachary Brener, Michael Bergman, James Winchester, Stephan Thijssen, Peter Kotanko, Francois Madore, Isabelle Chapdelaine, Clément Déziel, Timmy Lee, Eiji Takeda, Hironori Yamamoto, Hisami Yamanaka-Okumura, Yutaka Taketani, Joshua Kaplan, Rudolf Gasko, Oliver Rácz, Eleonóra Klímová, Emanuel Zitt, Ulrich Neyer, Aysegul Zumrutdal, Ingela Fehrman-Ekholm, Susanne Heiwe, Andrej Ekholm, Martin Sedlacek, Changsheng Zhao, Baihai Su, Shudong Sun, Chih-Hu Ho, Michael Henrie, Eric Stroup, Cheryl Ford, Jenny Olsson, Roland E. Winkler, M.B.A., Peter Ahrenholz, Klaus Freivogel, Olimpia Ortega, Ciro Tetta, Stefano Maffei, Giorgio Triolo, Giuseppe Paolo Segoloni, Giovanni Camussi, Emanuele Gatti, Barbara Cisterna, Valentina Fonsato, Maria Chiara Deregibus, Kyungsoo Lee, Rodney Bowden, Neil Schwarz, Brian Shelmadine, Malgorzata Debowska, Bengt Lindholm, Jacek Waniewski, Kai Lauri, Jürgen Arund, Jana Holmar, Risto Tanner, Ivo Fridolin, Merike Luman, Matthew Gembala, Satish Kumar

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Progress in Hemodialysis - From Emergent Biotechnology to Clinical Practice Edited by Angelo Carpi, Carlo Donadio and Gianfranco Tramonti

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