title: [Research progress of overcoming immunological rejection in xenotransplantation].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the methods of overcoming immunological rejection in xenotransplantation.
  
  
  METHODS
  The strategies of overcoming immunological rejection in xenotransplantation were analyzed and summarized on the basis of an extensive review of the latest literature concerned.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The research development of immunological rejection mechanism and molecular biological technique provided new approaches for overcoming immunological rejection in xenotransplantation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is only a matter of time for xenotransplantation to be applied clinically.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing, 101149, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Changxing
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Zhixin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006085:Graft Survival; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous