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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-8-15
pubmed:abstractText
Improvements in xenotransplantation may significantly increase the availability of organs for human transplantation. The use of porcine organs, however, has raised concern about possible transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV) to the recipients. The authors developed monoclonal antibodies specific to the PERV Gag viral product and show that these antibodies can detect PERV antigen under a variety of assay conditions, including enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), Western blot, and immunofluorescence staining methods. Two patients in fulminant hepatic failure were treated by extracorporeal perfusion using transgenic porcine livers before receiving orthotopic liver transplants. Despite the use of immune suppression that allowed survival of the allograft, these patients both showed a strong immune response to the xenograft suggesting a largely intact capability to mount a humoral immune response. However, analysis of patient serum samples over a 3 to 4 year period has showed no evidence of an immune response to PERV antigens, suggesting a lack of PERV infection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1058-2916
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
407-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Animals, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Antibodies, Heterophile, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Antibodies, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-DNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Endogenous Retroviruses, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Gene Products, gag, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Liver, Artificial, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Liver Failure, Acute, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Liver Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Perfusion, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Retroviridae Infections, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Sus scrofa, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Transplantation, Heterologous, pubmed-meshheading:12918582-Transplantation, Homologous
pubmed:articleTitle
Serologic analysis of anti-porcine endogenous retroviruses immune responses in humans after ex vivo transgenic pig liver perfusion.
pubmed:affiliation
Nextran Inc., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro