Transient transmission of porcine endogenous retrovirus to fetal lambs after pig islet tissue xenotransplantation

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-248

  Popp, Sarah K ^a   Mann, David A ^a   Milburn, Peter J ^a   Gibbs, Adrian J ^b   McCullagh, Peter J ^a   Wilson, James Dennis ^c   Tönjes, Ralf R ^d   Simeonovic, Charmaine J ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Islet; PCR; PERV; Pig; Transmission; Xenograft

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ENZYME; PALMITOYLCARNITINE TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LAMB; LIVER; MICROCHIMERISM; NONHUMAN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCID MOUSE; SPLEEN; SWINE; THYMECTOMY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; MITOCHONDRIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SPLEEN; SUS SCROFA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; OVIS ARIES; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 34247846220     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.icb.7100028     Document Type: Article

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