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Bringing attention to the moral dilemmas raised by xenotransplantation and the continuous creation of standardized frameworks for donor technology and biosafety risk management, with a focus on striking a balance between patient safety, medical innovation, and ethical obligation.
Sankhajyoti Saha +2 more
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Adaptive Immunity in Marsupials
Comparison of the marsupial and eutherian adaptive immune systems. ABSTRACT Marsupials diverged from eutherian mammals 125–160 million years ago. Although evolutionarily distinct, both groups of mammals can produce complex adaptive immune responses to antigens with several key differences.
Cassandra L. Jol +2 more
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Purpose: To analyze antibody profiles in retrovirus-seronegative and seropositive cats after vaccination or field infection with feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1), and feline calicivirus (FCV).
D. PROVERBIO +3 more
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Heart valves from pigs and the porcine endogenous retrovirus: Experimental and clinical data to assess the probability of porcine endogenous retrovirus infection in human subjects [PDF]
Objective: Replacement of heart valves in human subjects has become a routine procedure in cardiac operations. We sought to investigate whether commercially available glutaraldehyde-fixed porcine heart valve prostheses cause porcine endogenous retrovirus
H. Mertsching +9 more
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Abstract Background Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA) is a heterogeneous group of heritable, mostly recessive, progressive neurodegenerative diseases characterized by iron deposition in the basal ganglia and brainstem. There are no solid global epidemiological data on prevalence and incidence of NBIA subtypes, but registry data and ...
Susanne A. Schneider +3 more
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HTLV-1 contains a high CG dinucleotide content and is susceptible to the host antiviral protein ZAP
Background Human T cell leukaemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus associated with human diseases such as adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma and HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis.
Paola Miyazato +8 more
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Emerging Role of LY6E in Virus–Host Interactions
As a canonical lymphocyte antigen-6/urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor Ly6/uPAR family protein, lymphocyte antigen 6 complex, locus E (LY6E), plays important roles in immunological regulation, T cell physiology, and oncogenesis.
Jingyou Yu, Shan-Lu Liu
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Antibodies to type D retrovirus in talapoin monkeys
Sera from 154 African non-human primates were screened for the presence of antibodies to type D retrovirus proteins. Four of five talapoin monkeys (Miopithecus sp.) captured in western Africa were positive for antibodies to type D retrovirus by ELISA and
Daniel, M +3 more
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Interferon inducible transmembrane proteins (IFITMs) are one of several IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) that restrict entry of enveloped viruses, including flaviviruses, filoviruses and retroviruses.
Jingyou Yu, Shan-Lu Liu
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Sickle Cell Disease: Historical Overview and Current Therapies
ABSTRACT Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions worldwide, yet the limited treatment options currently available do not always adequately control the disease and carry significant side effects. At present, the only curative treatment is hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation, a procedure that carries considerable challenges and numerous ...
Oluwaseun O. Babatunde +4 more
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