Transgenic Tilapia for Xenotransplantation

Aquaculture Biotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 281-290

  Wright, James R ^a   Hrytsenko, Olga ^b   Pohajdak, Bill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

"humanized" tilapia gene; Ideal donor tissue; Islet transplantation; Islet xenotransplantation; JDFI; Juvenile onset diabetes; TG tilapia islets; TG tilapia production; Transgenic (TG) tilapia; Transgenic tilapia, xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886227856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470963159.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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