On the need for porcine embryonic stem cells to produce Gal KO pigs expressing multiple transgenes to advance xenotransplantation research

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 411-412

  Nottle, Mark B ^a   Vassiliev, Ivan ^a   O'Connel, Phillip J ^b   D'Apice, Anthony J ^c   Cowan, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSE; GROWTH FACTOR;

BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHIMERA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PORCINE EMBRYO; PORCINE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PIG; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; SWINE; TRANSGENES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 78650631790     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2010.00611.x     Document Type: Note

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