Articles tagged "Pig"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Experimental Porcine Pancreatic Allotransplantation after Hypothermic Perfusion
T. Prudhomme¹, D. Kervella¹, K. Renaudin², V. Gauttier¹, S. Le Bas-Bernardet³, D. Minault³, J. Hervouet³, D. Cantarovich¹, G. Karam¹, G. Blancho¹, J. Branchereau¹
¹Institut de Transplantation Urologie Néphrologie (ITUN), CHU Nantes, Nantes, France, ²Département d’Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologique, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France, ³Centre de Recherche en Transplantation et Immunologie, UMR1064, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
*Purpose: The main objective of this study was to compare the different preservation techniques (static cold storage (SCS) and hypothermic pulsatile perfusion (HPP)) in a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
XIAP Enhances Xenoislet Survival: Novel Models to Evaluate Pretransplantation Gene Modifications
G. R. Devi¹, Z. Fitch¹, M. Song¹, M. Ribeiro¹, A. McGowan¹, X. Luo², B. H. Collins¹, A. D. Kirk¹
¹Department of Surgery, Duke Univesity School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ²Division of Nephrology, Duke Univesity School of Medicine, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Porcine islet xenotransplantation offers a reliable and near limitless supply of islets for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Intraportal infusion of cells exposes…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Hepatic Microenvironment: Molecular and Chemical Changes Associated with Preconditioning Maneuvers
I. Lies, C. Watkins, M. Em, J. D. Eason, C. Eynard, T. Rousselle, V. R. Mas, D. Maluf
Dept of Surgery, Transplant Research Institute, James D. Eason Transplant Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Liver preconditioning has been described to protect liver from ischemia injury and trigger liver regeneration. Hereby, we aimed to assess the effect of preconditioning…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Abdominal Multiorgan Retrieval from Pigs in a Slaughterhouse: A Reliable and Efficient Donation after Circulatory Death Model for Ex Vivo Organ Perfusion
F. Neri, F. Dengu, G. Ebeling, L. Knijff, K. Rozemberg, J. Branchereau, P. Friend, R. Ploeg, J. Hunter
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Advances in organ perfusion technology have been driven by the increasing necessity to utilise organs from donors after circulatory death (DCD) and marginal donors.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Coagulation and Cd46 Transgene Modification in Neonatal Porcine Islet Xenotransplantation
M. Song, Z. Fitch, K. Samy, Q. Gao, R. P. Davis, F. Leopard, R. Schmitz, N. Huffman, G. Devi, B. Collins, A. D. Kirk
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Vascular thrombosis is a potential cause for early intraportal xeno-islet loss. To better understand the relationship between coagulation and inflammation in early xeno-islet transplantation,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
What Happens When You Administer Mesenchymal Stromal Cells During Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Porcine Kidneys: Possible and Helpful or Not?
K. Rozenberg¹, L. Knijff¹, J. Sierra-Parraga², L. Lo Faro¹, M. Hoogduijn², C. Baan², J. Hunter¹, R. Ploeg¹
¹Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death kidneys are widely used to increase the donor pool, despite their inferior quality. Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) could provide a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Ex-Vivo Kidney Perfusion is Superior to Anoxic and Oxygenated Hypothermic Machine Perfusion for the Preservation of DCD Porcine Kidney Grafts
L. Mazilescu¹, M. Kaths², P. Urbanellis¹, M. Hamar³, T. Goto¹, I. Linares-Cervantes¹, Y. Noguchi¹, A. Konvalinka¹, A. Ghanekar¹, D. Bagli⁴, R. John⁵, L. Robinson⁶, M. Selzner¹
¹Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, ³Department of Transplantation and Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, ⁴Departments of Surgery(Urology)&Physiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: To increase the donor pool, better preservation strategies for the storage of marginal kidney grafts are crucial. Currently, kidney grafts are either stored on…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improved Survival of Acute Liver Failure by “Off-the-Shelf” Bioartificial Liver Support System Using Immobilized Cryopreserved Hepatocyte Spheroids in Porcine Model
S. Lee¹, J. Lee², H. Park², Y. Kim², J. Noh³, J. Jung³, S. Lee³, H. Shin³, H. Yoon⁴, D. Lee³, S. Lee¹
¹Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, Research Institute for Future Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Biomedical Research Center, Lifeliver, Co. Ltd., Yongin, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Biomedical Research Center, Lifeliver, Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Acute liver failure (ALF) has a rapid and unpredictable onset with high mortality. The only current treatment is to transplant a donor organ but…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged In Vivo Perfusion of a Re-Endothelialized Human-Scale Tissue Engineered Kidney Graft
J. S. Uzarski¹, E. E. Russell¹, E. C. Beck¹, M. Holzner², V. Wadhera², D. Adamson², T. Gilbert¹, S. Florman², D. S. Davidow¹, R. Shapiro², J. Ross¹
¹Research & Development, Miromatrix Medical Inc., Eden Prairie, MN, ²Recanati/Miller Institute, Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Advances are desperately needed to increase the supply of transplantable kidneys for the 100,000 patients on the waiting list. Whole organ engineering is one…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Xenoantibody Depletion of Human Blood with Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Porcine Kidney and Lung Prior to Liver Perfusion
T. M. Coe¹, N. Serifis¹, S. Raigani¹, C. Carroll¹, C. G. Rickert¹, R. Matheson¹, D. Detelich², W. Qin³, Y. Kan³, J. Layer³, M. Youd³, W. Westlin³, L. Yang³, A. Azimzadeh¹, J. F. Markmann¹
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Surgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³eGenesis, Cambridge, MA
*Purpose: Genetic modifications of porcine donors for pig-to-human xenotransplantation have led to significant progress in survival of xenografts in preclinical models. Triple knock-out (TKO) of…

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