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- W4211209436 abstract "This chapter reviews the microbiological risks of xenotransplantation as they currently exist, with the caveat that the technical tools of molecular biology are rapidly adding to our knowledge in leaps and bounds. The ethical issue for xenotransplantation from the microbiological aspect is the risk of introducing an unknown infectious agent into a naive human population versus the individual benefit of a life-giving organ transplantation and improved quality of life. There is a large database of information on pigs, from basic anatomy and physiology to specifics of their biochemistry and genome. Production of pigs in barrier facilities operated under very high standards of animal husbandry can consistently yield qualified-pathogen-free animals. The gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV) behaves as an exogenous retrovirus, but DNA evidence points to the endogenous retrovirus of Mus caroli as the origin. Certainly, the expanding interest in pigs as organ donors has placed the subject of endogenous retroviruses, in particular the porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV), front and center in the microbiological risk analysis of xenotransplantation. PERV mRNA has been identified at variable levels in all tissues examined, indicating that viral expression is not restricted. Transmission electron microscopy of tissues was negative, although virus-like particles (VLP) were detected in serum. Although the VLP did not bind antibodies against recombinant gag or whole virus, product-enhanced reverse transcriptase analysis produced positive results." @default.
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- W4211209436 date "2014-04-30" @default.
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- W4211209436 title "Xenotransplantation" @default.
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