The prospects for renal xenotransplantation
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Prospects of clinical xenotransplantation.
OUR two recent atte~pts ~t baboon-to-human xenotransplantatton faJled. I -. However. there were encouraging notations. First. the xenografts had no evidence of B virus infection during their posttransplant survival of 70 and 26 days in B virus carriers. Second. there also was little histopathologic evidence of humoral or cellular rejection of these livers. Yet. their function was suboptimal. If...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1320-5358,1440-1797
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.1996.tb00091.x