Xenobanking for Organ Preservation
Abstract
Xenobanking has been used to successfully maintain and improve the function of stored kidney grafts for future allotransplantation. At present, the routine period of storage used experimentally is arbitrarily 5 days, a period twice that seen with the systems of organ perfusion in current use in many laboratories. With present means of immunosuppression, i.e., lethal total body irradiation, the storage time can usually be extended to 10 or 11 days, after which termination occurs due to the death of the intermediate host. This provides a period of approximately 10 days' storage time which is a significant improvement over our presently available methods.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0740920
Entities
People
- Jeffrey L. Benjamin
- Kenneth W. Sell
Organizations
- Naval Medical Research Center