This technique could permanently change the landscape of organ donation.
for successfully performing xenotransplantation of pig hearts and kidneys into human recipients. But there’s a reason these organs have been chosen as the test cases, Bacchetta said. They don’t require much modification before being transplanted into their recipients, and as long as rejection doesn’t occur, they’re essentially good to go.Ciera Shaver, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
While xenotransplant research has focused extensively on understanding the immune response a human has to a pig organ, there had not yet been an investigation into the opposite, the authors wrote in the paper.
With the pig’s immune response better understood, the researchers can focus their attention on tamping it down, since it’s significantly easier to prevent antibodies from sticking to donor lungs than removing them once attached. “Not only can the lung fix itself from the damage that the donor lung had in the first place, but it can do it despite an immune response being mounted against it,” she said.
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