Are there advantages in the use of specific pathogen-free baboons in pig organ xenotransplantation models?

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 287-290

  Zhou, Huidong ^a,b   Iwase, Hayato ^a   Wolf, Roman F ^c   Ekser, Burcin ^a   Ezzelarab, Mohamed ^a   Hara, Hidetaka ^a   White, Gary ^c   Cooper, David K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anti pig; antibody; baboon; pig; specific pathogen free; xenotransplantation; 1,3 galactosyltransferase gene knockout

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE; GENE INACTIVATION; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; SURGERY; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PAPIO; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84901912941     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/xen.12088     Document Type: Article

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