Results of life-supporting galactosyltransferase knockout kidneys in cynomolgus monkeys using two different sources of galactosyltransferase knockout swine

Transplantation

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 419-426

  Sekijima, Mitsuhiro ^a   Waki, Shiori ^a,b   Sahara, Hisashi ^a   Tasaki, Masayuki ^a   Wilkinson, Robert A ^c   Villani, Vincenzo ^c   Shimatsu, Yoshiki ^d   Nakano, Kazuaki ^e   Matsunari, Hitomi ^e   Nagashima, Hiroshi ^e   Fishman, Jay A ^c   Shimizu, Akira ^c   Yamada, Kazuhiko ^a,c  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GalT KO swine; Life supporting kidney xenografts; Porcine CMV; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; ANTIBODY; N ACETYLLACTOSAMINIDE ALPHA 1,3 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; N-ACETYLLACTOSAMINIDE ALPHA-1,3-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE GENE KNOCKOUT PIG; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; KIDNEY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CREATININE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84908019273     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000314     Document Type: Article

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