After removal, the tissues can be preserved for six hours or so when stored at 5°C., and for even longer periods if continuously perfused with a proper blood and salt solution.This and other technical aspects of transplantation are discussed in Couch, Curran & Moore, The Use of Cadaver Tissues in Transplantation, 271 NEw ENG.
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E. Blythe Stason (1967) studied this question.