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Bookmark or Share- Progress in xenotransplantation: overcoming immune barriersImprovements in methodologies for genetic engineering of pigs and immunosuppression have led to exciting advances in xenotransplantation, which are reflected in long-term organ xenograft survival...
- Xenotransplantation: Benefits and Risks - BIOIn xenotransplantation, a more aggressive defense mechanism called "hyperacute rejection" occurs when tissue not recognized as human is introduced to the body. In a matter of minutes, an individual’s immune system sets out to destroy the transplanted organ.
- Xenotransplantation: Are pigs the future of organ transplants? - BBCThe frontiers of organ transplantation have been pushed further than ever before. The first organs taken from genetically engineered pigs have been put into people and the recipient of the first...
- Xenotransplantation | FDA - U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationXenotransplantation is any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation or infusion into a human recipient of either live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman animal source, or...
- Xenotransplantation - WikipediaXenotransplantation (xenos-from the Greek meaning "foreign" or strange), or heterologous transplant, is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another. Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenografts or xenotransplants.
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