Reproductive Characteristic of Transgenic Massachusetts General Hospital Miniature Pigs for Xenotransplantation

• Main Authors: Soo-Jeong Ji (Author), Gunsup Lee (Author), Sang Hyoun Park (Author), Kyung Woon Kim (Author), Sung-June Byun (Author), Sun A Ock (Author), Seongsoo Hwang (Author), Jae-Seok Woo (Author), Keon Bong Oh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Korean Society of Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology, 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pigs have been extensively used as mediators of xenotransplantation research. Specifically, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) miniature pig was developed to fix major histocompatibility antigens for use in xenotransplantation studies. We generated transgenic pigs for xenotransplantation using...