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Pigs transgenic for human thrombomodulin have elevated production of activated protein C
1 Nov 2009
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The inability of porcine thrombomodulin (TM) to activate human anticoagulant protein C after pig-to-human xenotransplantation may lead to an aberrant activation of coagulation with microthrombosis and ultimately failure of the transplanted organ. Here, we describe the production of triple-transgenic pigs expressing hCD59/DAF and human thrombomodulin (hTM) and tested hTM-transgenic fibroblasts obtained...
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