Analysis of potential porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) transmission in a whole-organ xenotransplantation model without interfering microchimerism

Transplant International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-37

  Loss, Martin ^a   Arends, Heiko ^a   Winkler, M ^a   Przemeck, Michael ^a   Steinhoff, Gustav ^a   Rensing, Susanne ^b   Kaup, Franz Josef ^b   Hedrich, Hans J ^a   Winkler, Monica E ^a   Martin, Ulrich ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimerism; Kidney transplantation; Pig to primate; Porcine endogenous retrovirus; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTE; MICROCHIMERISM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SAFETY; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0035142996     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001470050739     Document Type: Article

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