Pig endogenous retroviruses and xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 242-251

  Blusch, Jürgen H ^a,d   Patience, Clive ^b   Martin, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Immerge Biotherapeutics Inc   (United States)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Infection risk; Pig endogenous retrovirus; Porcine endogenous retroviruses; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RATS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0036665029     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3089.2002.01110.x     Document Type: Review

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