Pre-screening of miniature swine may reduce the risk of transmitting human tropic recombinant porcine endogenous retroviruses

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 222-226

  Hector, Ralph D ^a   Meikle, Sharon ^a   Grant, Louise ^a   Wilkinson, Robert A ^b   Fishman, Jay A ^b   Scobie, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogenous retrovirus; Genomic locus; Human tropic PERV; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; PROVIRUSES; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 34247868816     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2007.00394.x     Document Type: Article

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