Xenotransplantation

Herausgegeben von Wilson, Carolyn; Salomon, Daniel R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 by a "human" virus and thus the xenograft might resist injury caused by such viruses. The third and, as of yet, unexplored aspect relates to a means of delivering genes for therapeutic purposes thus overcoming some of the limitations of "conventional" gene therapy.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology .278
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-62431-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9783642624315
• ISBN-10: 3642624316
• Artikelnr.: 37042532

Inhaltsangabe

Genetic Modification of Xenografts.- Public Health Risks - Patient vs. Society in an Emerging Field.- Cross-Species Infections.- Non-Human Primate Herpesviruses: Importance for Xenotransplantation.- Understanding Xenotransplantation Risks from Non-Human Primate Retroviruses.- Exogenous Porcine Viruses.- Swine Hepatitis E Virus: Cross-Species Infection and Risk in Xenotransplantation.- Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of Infectious PERVand Development of Diagnostic Tests.- Xenotransplantation-Federal Regulatory Considerations.