Xenotransplantation: past achievements and future promise.
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.
Dwyer
Karen M
KM
Immunology Research Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Cowan
Peter J
PJ
d'Apice
Anthony J F
AJ