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Porcine endogenous retroviruses in xenotransplantation
27 Jan 2024
Abstract excerpt
Xenotransplantation using pig cells, tissues or organs is under development to alleviate the shortage of human donor organs. Meanwhile, remarkably long survival times of pig organs in non-human primates have been reported, as well as the functionality of pig kidneys and hearts in brain-dead humans. Most importantly, two transplantations of pig hearts in patients were performed with survival times of the patients...
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