Open AccessBringing Home The Bacon: Update on The State of Kidney Xenotransplantation
Author(s) -
David K.C. Cooper,
Hayato Iwase,
L. Wang,
Takayuki Yamamoto,
Qi Li,
J Li,
Hongmin Zhou,
Hidetaka Hara
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
blood purification
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1421-9735
pISSN - 0253-5068
DOI - 10.1159/000485163
Subject(s) - xenotransplantation , transplantation , immunology , kidney , medicine , antigen , antibody , human leukocyte antigen , organ transplantation , kidney transplantation , biology
There is a continuing critical shortage of organs from deceased human donors for transplantation, particularly for patients awaiting kidney transplantation. Efforts are being made to resolve the donor kidney shortage by the transplantation of kidneys from genetically-engineered pigs.
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