No transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) in a long-term pig to rat xenotransplantation model and no infection of immunosuppressed rats

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-31

  Denner, Joachim ^a   Specke, Volker ^a   Karlas, Alexander ^a   Chodnevskaja, Irina ^b   Meyer, Thomas ^b   Moskalenko, Vasiliy ^b   Kurth, Reinhard ^a   Ulrichs, Karin ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Islet microencapsulation; Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs); Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

STREPTOZOCIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LANGERHANS CELL; MICROENCAPSULATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; RAT; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAFETY; SWINE; WISTAR RAT; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAFETY; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 48549101624     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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