Opinions on the Future of Clinical Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation

Based on promising results obtained in primate models, pioneers in the US have now started to explore the new frontier of genetically-edited pig-to-human transplantation.The recent transition of xenotransplantation into clinical medicine has included transplants in brain-dead subjects and the compassionate use of xenotransplants in living recipient

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Risk of hormone escape in a human prostate cancer model depends on therapy modalities and can be reduced by tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Almost all prostate cancers respond to androgen deprivation treatment but many recur.We postulated that risk of hormone escape--frequency and delay--are influenced by hormone therapy modalities.More, hormone therapies induce crucial biological changes involving androgen receptors; some might be targets for escape prevention.We investigated the rela

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