The success of allotransplantation has led to an increasing shortage of human organs from deceased donors. This crisis could be resolved by the use of organs from an anatomically suitable animal, such as the pig. The pig and human have, however, been evolving differently for approximately 80 million years, and numerous immunological and physiological barriers have developed that need to be over...

1 Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 2 Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Department of Immunology, Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4 Department of Surgery Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia, 5 CHIRI Bio...

While a newly isolated bacterium would usually, as a mat ter of bionomic routine, be tested soon for its power of fermentation of various carbohydrates, nothing systematic has been done in this direction with the group of organisms dassed as spirochetes. The lack of investigation along this line may be partly due to the technical difficulties which still surround the cultivation of these organi...

The literature supports the notion that carbohydrate epitopes, on their own, do not contribute significantly to the induction of allergic reactions. They bind weakly to IgE antibodies and have been termed as cross reactive carbohydrate determinants. These epitopes cause confusion in in vitro IgE testing through nonspecific cross-reactivity. Coincident with the rising trends in food allergy prev...

This study compared the effects of a high-carbohydrate and a mixed diet on core temperature responses to prolonged exercise in six male competitive cyclists (age = 22.2 +/- 1.9 years). This study, the first to investigate the effect of a high-carbohydrate diet on exercise core temperature in humans, therefore suggests that three days of increased dietary carbohydrate intakes do not evoke any de...