title: Xenotransplantation: past achievements and future promise.
abstract: Xenotransplantation offers a potential solution to the shortfall in donor organs for human transplantation. This review describes the barriers to xenotransplantation and the progress that has been made towards making it a clinical reality. Data from preclinical pig-to-primate cardiac and pulmonary xenografts are highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Immunology Research Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Karen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Dwyer
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Cowan
authors.forename: Anthony J F
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: d'Apice