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Xenotransplantation of the Porcine Lung-From Immunological Barriers to Emerging Experimental Strategies.

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Key takeaways

This review discusses using pig lungs for human transplants. It explains why the body often rejects these organs and how scientists are trying to fix that. It notes that pig heart and kidney transplants are already in trials. There are no new patient results in this review.

Who did this work

Roters N · Varma N · Ramm R · Niemann H · Zardo P · Ruhparwar A · Goecke T

Source

Paper · PubMed, xeno · 2026 Sep-Oct
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42755015/