Clinical xenotransplantation of organs: Why aren't we there yet?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 429-434

  Mohiuddin, Muhammad M ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA MODIFICATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MICROCHIMERISM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; VIRUS INFECTION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; METHODOLOGY; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 33947705240     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040075     Document Type: Review

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