Transmission of zoonoses in xenotransplantation: Porcine endogenous retroviruses from an immunological and molecular point of view

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 199-206

  Prabha, Suji ^a   Verghese, Susan ^a  

^a Frontier Lifeline Hospital (Dr K M Cherian Heart Foundation)   (India)

Author keywords

Recombinant porcine endogenous retrovirus; restriction fragment length polymorphism; xenografts

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VIRUS; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84881186216     PISSN: 00195359     EISSN: 19983654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.115210     Document Type: Article

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