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Comparative Hepatology BioMed Central Research Open Access Scavenger properties of cultivated pig liver endothelial cells 1 2 2 1 Kjetil H Elvevold* , Geir I Nedredal , Arthur Revhaug and Bård Smedsrød Address: 1Department of Experimental Pathology, Institute of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø, 9038 Tromsø, Norway and 2Department of Digestive Surgery, University Hospital of Tromsø, 9038 Tromsø, Norway Email: Kjetil H Elvevold* - kjetilhe@fagmed.uit.no; Geir I Nedredal - geir.ivar.nedredal@fagmed.uit.no; Arthur Revhaug - arthur.revhaug@unn.no; Bård Smedsrød - bard.smedsrod@fagmed.uit.no * Corresponding author Published: 12 August 2004 Received: 22 April 2004 Accepted: 12 August 2004 Comparative Hepatology 2004, 3:4 doi:10.1186/1476-5926-3-4 This article is available from: /content/3/1/4 © 2004 Elvevold et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSEC) and Kupffer cells constitute the most powerful scavenger system in the body. Various waste macromolecules, continuously released from tissues in large quantities as a consequence of normal catabolic processes