Integrative multi-omics profiling in human decedents receiving pig heart xenografts

E Schmauch, B Piening, M Mohebnasab, B Xia… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
In a previous study, heart xenografts from 10-gene-edited pigs transplanted into two human
decedents did not show evidence of acute-onset cellular-or antibody-mediated rejection …

Large animal models for translational research in acute kidney injury

B Packialakshmi, IJ Stewart, DM Burmeister… - Renal failure, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
While extensive research using animal models has improved the understanding of acute
kidney injury (AKI), this knowledge has not been translated into effective treatments. Many …

Future prospects for tissue engineered lung transplantation: decellularization and recellularization-based whole lung regeneration

T Tsuchiya, A Sivarapatna, K Rocco, A Nanashima… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The shortage of donor lungs for transplantation causes a significant number of patient
deaths. The availability of laboratory engineered, functional organs would be a major …

Pigs expressing the human inhibitory ligand PD‐L1 (CD 274) provide a new source of xenogeneic cells and tissues with low immunogenic properties

A Buermann, S Petkov, B Petersen, R Hein… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background The programmed cell death‐1 (PD‐1, CD 279)/PD‐Ligand1 (PD‐L1, CD 274)
receptor system is crucial for controlling the balance between immune activation and …

Humanized von Willebrand factor reduces platelet sequestration in ex vivo and in vivo xenotransplant models

MR Connolly, K Kuravi, L Burdorf, L Sorrells… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The transplantation of organs across species offers the potential to solve the shortage of
human organs. While activation of human platelets by human von Willebrand factor (vWF) …

Device therapy and cardiac transplantation for end-stage heart failure

BA Boilson, E Raichlin, SJ Park… - Current problems in …, 2010 - Elsevier
The prevalence of heart failure is increasing, and the prognosis of end-stage heart failure
remains dismal. The gold-standard therapy in end-stage heart failure remains cardiac …

Clinical lung xenotransplantation–what donor genetic modifications may be necessary?

DKC Cooper, B Ekser, C Burlak… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cooper DKC, Ekser B, Burlak C, Ezzelarab M, Hara H, Paris L, Tector AJ, Phelps C,
Azimzadeh AM, Ayares D, Robson SC, Pierson RN III. Clinical lung xenotransplantation …

Bridging to allotransplantation—is pig liver xenotransplantation the best option?

V Lamm, B Ekser, PA Vagefi, DKC Cooper - Transplantation, 2022 - journals.lww.com
In the past 20 y, the number of patients in the United States who died while waiting for a
human donor liver totaled> 52 000. The median national wait time for patients with acute …

Current state of clinical trials on xenograft

J El Masri, A Afyouni, M Ghazi, T Baroud… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Xenotransplantation is a worth investing branch of science, since it aims to fulfil
the demand on human cells, tissues and organs. Despite decades of consistent work in …

Deciphering modifications in swine cardiac troponin I by top-down high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry

J Zhang, X Dong, TA Hacker, Y Ge - Journal of the American Society for …, 2010 - Springer
Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is an important regulatory protein in cardiac muscle, and its
modification represents a key mechanism in the regulation of cardiac muscle contraction …