Initial investigation of the potential of modified porcine erythrocytes for transfusion in primates

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-26

  Eckermann, Jan M ^a,b   Buhler, Leo H ^a,e   Zhu, Alex ^c   Dor, Frank J M F ^a   Awwad, Michel ^d   Cooper, David K C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RBC Biotechnology Inc   (United States)

^d Immerge Biotherapeutics Inc   (United States)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

galactosidase; 3Gal; Blood transfusion; Erythrocytes; Gal 1; N glycolylneuraminic acid; Pig; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; GALACTOSIDE; GALACTOSYLGALACTOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BABOON; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPLEMENT HEMOLYTIC ACTIVITY ASSAY; DISACCHARIDES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PAPIO; SWINE;

EID: 0742271162     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2004.00087.x     Document Type: Article

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