Engineering tissues for transplantation

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The supply of organs for transplantation

 

Fig. 2. Number of kidney transplants and of patients waiting to receive a kidney transplant

in Austria, Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands (data from Eurotranplant)

Fig. 2. Synthesis of the Gala1-3Galb1 epitope in pig tissues (a) and a transgenic

strategy (b) capable of blocking its synthesis (from Parker et al., 1996).

"Transgenic routes to xenotransplantation"