A biological extracorporeal metabolic device for hepatic support.

The results from OCTOPUS-I indicate that combined metabolic activities could be maintained under the optimal conditions provided for a prolonged period of time, but most effectively up to 14 hrs. The results of OCTOPUS-II and -III are lower than those in OCTOPUS-I. However, the activity in these systems is still higher than those previously reported((18)), which had urea production of 0.