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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 278)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
Daniel R. Salomon
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Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, USA
Carolyn Wilson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Xenotransplantation
Editors: Daniel R. Salomon, Carolyn Wilson
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55541-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-00210-9Published: 23 July 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62431-5Published: 13 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55541-1Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 257
Topics: Immunology, Surgery