在两个最近去世的人类接受者身上,从猪到人类的心脏的异种移植

Nader Moazami1, Jeffrey M Stern2, Karen Khalil2

  • 1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA. nader.moazami@nyulangone.org.

Nature medicine
|July 24, 2023
PubMed
概括

转基因猪心脏被移植到两个脑死亡的接受者身上. 异种移植的功能良好,没有表现出排斥或动物感染的迹象,为未来的异种移植研究铺平了道路.

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