Xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation
ISBN-10
3642555411
ISBN-13
9783642555411
Series
Xenotransplantation
Category
Medical
Pages
257
Language
English
Published
2012-12-06
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Carolyn Wilson, Daniel R. Salomon

Description

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.

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