Heart transplantation: advances in expanding the donor pool and xenotransplantation

S Jou, SR Mendez, J Feinman, LR Mitrani… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Approximately 65 million adults globally have heart failure, and the prevalence is expected
to increase substantially with ageing populations. Despite advances in pharmacological and …

Advances in organ and tissue xenotransplantation

A Ali, E Kemter, E Wolf - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
End-stage organ failure can result from various preexisting conditions and occurs in patients
of all ages, and organ transplantation remains its only treatment. In recent years, extensive …

Antiviral factors and their counteraction by HIV-1: Many uncovered and more to be discovered

D Kmiec, F Kirchhoff - Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Extensive studies on HIV-1 have led to the discovery of a variety of structurally and
functionally diverse innate defense factors that target various steps of the retroviral …

Mitigating cross-species viral infections in xenotransplantation: progress, strategies, and clinical outlook

Y Zhou, S Zhou, Q Wang, B Zhang - Cell Transplantation, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Xenotransplantation holds great promise as a solution to address the critical shortage of
organs, but it raises concerns regarding the potential transmission of porcine viruses to …

Structure-guided discovery of highly efficient cytidine deaminases with sequence-context independence

K Xu, H Feng, H Zhang, C He, H Kang, T Yuan… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
The applicability of cytosine base editors is hindered by their dependence on sequence
context and by off-target effects. Here, by using AlphaFold2 to predict the three-dimensional …

A brief review of the current status of pig islet xenotransplantation

DKC Cooper, L Mou, R Bottino - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
An estimated 1.5 million Americans suffer from Type I diabetes mellitus, and its incidence is
increasing worldwide. Islet allotransplantation offers a treatment, but the availability of …

Ethical and legislative advances in xenotransplantation for clinical translation: focusing on cardiac, kidney and islet cell xenotransplantation

WJ Hawthorne - Frontiers in immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In this state-of-the-art review we detail the journey of xenotransplantation from its infancy,
detailing one of the first published cases and the subsequent journey the field took in its …

Heart of the matter—infection and xenotransplantation

KK Saharia… - Transplant Infectious …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this clinicopathological conference, invited experts discussed a previously published case
of a patient with nonischemic cardiomyopathy who underwent heart transplantation from a …

A Comparison Between GalT−/−;hCD39;hCD55 and GalT−/−;hCD39;hCD46;hCD55;TBM Pig Kidneys Transplanted in Nonhuman Primates

HN Suh, JY Lee, HJ Kang, EM Park… - Cell …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Because there is a shortage of donor kidneys, researchers are exploring the possibility of
using genetically modified pig kidneys for transplantation. Approaches involving knockout of …

[HTML][HTML] Genetically modified pigs: Emerging animal models for hereditary hearing loss

X Wang, TX Liu, Y Zhang, LW Xu, SL Yuan… - Zoological …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hereditary hearing loss (HHL), a genetic disorder that impairs auditory function, significantly
affects quality of life and incurs substantial economic losses for society. To investigate the …