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ArticleLaboratory animals2018

Creating effective biocontainment facilities and maintenance protocols for raising specific pathogen-free, severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) pigs.

Ellis J Powell, Sara Charley, Adeline N Boettcher, Lisa Varley, Justin Brown, Martine Schroyen, Malavika K Adur, Susan Dekkers, Dean Isaacson, Mary Sauer and 5 more

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Article in Laboratory animals, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ellis J Powell1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Sara Charley1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Adeline N Boettcher1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Lisa Varley1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Justin Brown2 Swine Medicine Education Center, Iowa State University, USA.
Martine Schroyen1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Malavika K Adur1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Susan Dekkers3 Thielen Student Health Center, Iowa State University, USA.
Dean Isaacson4 Laboratory Animal Resources, Iowa State University, USA.
Mary Sauer4 Laboratory Animal Resources, Iowa State University, USA.
Joan Cunnick1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
N Matthew Ellinwood1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Jason W Ross1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Jack Cm Dekkers1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Christopher K Tuggle1 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA.
Iowa State University · US

Funding

Expanding the Utility of Severe Combined Immuno-Deficient (SCID) Pig ModelsR24OD019813 · OD · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI TUGGLE, CHRISTOPHER · 2015 to 2019
$2.7M
NIH HHS R24 OD019813
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is defined by the lack of an adaptive immune system. Mutations causing SCID are found naturally in humans, mice, horses, dogs, and recently in pigs, with the serendipitous discovery of the Iowa State University SCID pigs. As research models, SCID animals are naturally tolerant of xenotransplantation and offer valuable insight into research areas such as regenerative medicine, cancer therapy, as well as immune cell signaling mechanisms. Large-animal biomedical models, particularly pigs, are increasingly essential to advance the efficacy and safety of novel regenerative therapies on human disease. Thus, there is a need to create practical approaches to maintain hygienic severe immunocompromised porcine models for exploratory medical research. Such research often requires stable genetic lines for replication and survival of healthy SCID animals for months post-treatment. A further hurdle in the development of the ISU SCID pig as a biomedical model involved the establishment of facilities and protocols necessary to obtain clean SPF piglets from the conventional pig farm on which they were discovered. A colony of homozygous SCID boars and SPF carrier sows has been created and maintained through selective breeding, bone marrow transplants, innovative husbandry techniques, and the development of biocontainment facilities.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalHousing, AnimalSevere Combined ImmunodeficiencySpecific Pathogen-Free OrganismsSwineAnimal HusbandryAnimalsFemaleMalecolostrumpigSevere combined immunodeficiency (SCID)snatch farrowspecific pathogen-free (SPF)

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PMID29325489
PMCPMC7737622
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