Xeno-transplantation /

Xenotransplantation could have an impact on at least three aspects of medicine. The first is as a means of overcoming a severe shortage of human donor organs for the treatment of organ failure. The second aspect relates to the possibility that a xenogeneic organ would not be susceptible to infection...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salomon, Daniel R.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wilson, Carolyn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer, 2003.
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 278.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Genetic modification of xenografts
  • Public health risks
  • patient versus society in an emerging field
  • Cross-species infections
  • Non-human primate herpesviruses: importance for xenotransplantation
  • Understanding xenotransplantation risks from non-swine hepatitis E virus: cross-species infection and risk in xenotransplantation
  • Molecular cloning and functions characterization of infectious PERV and development of diagnostic tests
  • Xenotransplantation
  • Federal regulatory considerations
  • Subject index.