ReviewTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation2024
Monitoring for PERV Following Xenotransplantation.
Review in Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Reframing Technology and Ethics in Corneal Xenotransplantation: A Scoping Review of Standards and Safety in Ophthalmology.Health care science · 2026Review
- Gammaretrovirus Infections in Humans in the Past, Present, and Future: Have We Defeated the Pathogen?Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Ethical Issues Involved in Solid Organ Xenotransplantation.Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Porcine xenotransplantation in the clinical era: converging advances and unresolved barriers on the path to clinical translation - a narrative review.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Developing European policy on xenotransplantation: instructive findings from the first representative UK sample survey on attitudes and views on animal to human transplants.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Comprehensive Protocols for Detecting Xenotransplantation-Relevant Viruses.Methods and protocols · 2025Article
- Endogenous Retroviruses in Host-Virus Coevolution: From Genomic Domestication to Functional Innovation.Genes · 2025Review
- Allogeneic Islet Transplantation: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Article
- Potential Infectious Complications in Pig Xenograft Donors and Recipients.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024Review
- An Immunological and Translational Framework for Interspecies Exogenic Liver Transplantation.Cell transplantationReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) are integrated in the genome of all pigs. PERV-A, PERV-B and PERV-C can be released as infectious virus particles and PERV-A and PERV-B can infect human cells in culture. PERV-C does not infect human cells, but high-titer recombinant PERV-A/C can infect them. Retroviruses are able to induce immunosuppression and/or tumors in the infected host. Numerous methods have been developed to study PERV in donor pigs. No PERV infections were observed in infection experiments as well as in preclinical and clinical xenotransplantation trials. Despite this, several strategies have been developed to prevent PERV infection of the recipient. PCR-based and immunological methods are required to screen xenotransplant recipients. Since the proviruses are integrated into the pig genome, PERV infection has to be distinguished from microchimerism, e.g., the presence of pig cells in the recipient, which is common in xenotransplantation. Sensitive PCR methods using pig short interspersed nuclear elements (SINE) sequences allow to detect pig cells easily. Virus infection can also be detected by an increase of viral genomic or mRNA in human cells. The method of choice, however, is to screen for specific antibodies against PERV using different recombinant PERV proteins, purified viruses or peptides.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.