No infection with porcine endogenous retrovirus in recipients of acellular porcine aortic valves: A two-year study

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-128

  Gu, Chunhu ^a   Wei, Xufeng ^a   Wang, Yunya ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Liu, Jincheng ^a   Wang, Hongbin ^a   Sun, Guocheng ^a   Yi, Dinghua ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Porcine endogenous retrovirus; Tissue engineering; Xenotransplantaion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, VIRAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RETROVIRIDAE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SHEEP; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 42649116764     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2008.00447.x     Document Type: Article

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