Bookedited by Cristina Costa, Rafael Máñez.
Contents:
Xenotransplantation : an overview of the field / Veronica Tisato and Emanuele Cozzi
Cloning and expression analyses of pig genes / Mireia Uribe-Herranz and Cristina Costa
Basic analyses of proteins of interest for xenotransplantation / Mireia Uribe-Herranz and Cristina Costa
Studies on carbohydrate xenoantigens / Dale Christiansen [and others]
Xenoantibodies and complement activity determinations in pig-to-primate xenotransplantation / Nieves Domenech
Studies on coagulation incompatibilities for xenotransplantation / Cristiana Bulato, Claudia Radu, and Paolo Simioni
Cellular studies for in vitro modeling of xenogeneic immune responses / Roberta Sommaggio, Magdiel Perez-Cruz, and Cristina Costa
Production of transgenic and knockout pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer / Angelica M. Giraldo, Suyapa Ball, and Kenneth R. Bondioli
Small animal models of xenotransplantation / Hao Wang
Heart xenotransplantation in primate models / Johannes Postrach [and others]
Xenogeneic lung transplantation models / Lars Burdorf, Agnes M. Azimzadeh, and Richard N. Pierson, III
Thymic transplantation in pig-to-nonhuman primates for the induction of tolerance across xenogeneic barriers / Kazuhiko Yamada and Joseph Scalea
Isolation of porcine pancreatic islets for xenotransplantation / Karin Ulrichs [and others]
Pig neural cells derived from foetal mesencephalon as cell source for intracerebral xenotransplantation / Xavier Leveque [and others]
Hepatocyte xenotransplantation / Katia R.F. Lima-Quaresma [and others]
In vitro repair model of focal articular cartilage defects in humans / Diaz Prado SM, Fuentes-Boquete IM, and Blanco FJ
Potential zoonotic infection of porcine endogenous retrovirus in xenotransplantation / Giada Mattiuzzo, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, and Linda Scobie
Ethical and regulatory issues for clinical trials in xenotransplantation / Jorge Guerra Gonzalez
Some ethical, social, and legal considerations of xenotransplantation / Maria Jorqui Azofra and Carlos Maria Romeo Casabona.