Preclinical promise and clinical challenges for innovative therapies targeting liver fibrogenesis

TA Addissouky, MMA Ali, IET El Sayed… - Archives of …, 2023 - scientificarchives.com
Liver fibrosis resulting from chronic liver injury can progress to cirrhosis and liver failure.
Current treatments are limited, creating an urgent need for novel antifibrotic therapies …

Advances in organ and tissue xenotransplantation

A Ali, E Kemter, E Wolf - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
End-stage organ failure can result from various preexisting conditions and occurs in patients
of all ages, and organ transplantation remains its only treatment. In recent years, extensive …

Serum antibody screening using glycan arrays

S Marglous, CE Brown, V Padler-Karavani… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Humans and other animals produce a diverse collection of antibodies, many of which bind to
carbohydrate chains, referred to as glycans. These anti-glycan antibodies are a critical part …

Complement networks in gene-edited pig xenotransplantation: enhancing transplant success and addressing organ shortage

Y Yuan, Y Cui, D Zhao, Y Yuan, Y Zhao, D Li… - Journal of translational …, 2024 - Springer
The shortage of organs for transplantation emphasizes the urgent need for alternative
solutions. Xenotransplantation has emerged as a promising option due to the greater …

Replace or Regenerate? Diverse Approaches to Biomaterials for Treating Corneal Lesions

P Bonato, A Bagno - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The inner structures of the eye are protected by the cornea, which is a transparent
membrane exposed to the external environment and subjected to the risk of lesions and …

A proposed model of xeno-keratoplasty using 3D printing and decellularization

X Wang, RT Elbahrawi, AM Abdukadir, ZM Ali… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Corneal opacity is a leading cause of vision impairment and suffering worldwide.
Transplantation can effectively restore vision and reduce chronic discomfort. However, there …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro and in vivo assessment of a non-animal sourced chitosan scaffold loaded with xeno-free umbilical cord mesenchymal stromal cells cultured under …

A Di Nubila, MN Doulgkeroglou, M Gurdal… - Biomaterials and …, 2024 - Elsevier
There is an increasing demand to not only accelerate the development of advanced therapy
tissue engineered medicines, but to also eliminate xenogeneic materials from their …

Barriers toward xenotransplantation in Arab World

M Ghazi, A Saleh, M Abdallah, D El Masri… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organ transplant is a crucial therapeutic strategy offering a life‐saving and transformative
medical intervention. It provides an opportunity to improve their quality of life and increase …

Comparison of ICSI, IVF, and in vivo derived embryos to produce CRISPR-Cas9 gene-edited pigs for xenotransplantation

O Briski, GE La Motta, LD Ratner, FA Allegroni… - Theriogenology, 2024 - Elsevier
Genome editing in pigs for xenotransplantation has seen significant advances in recent
years. This study compared three methodologies to generate gene-edited embryos …

Chimeric Livers: Interspecies Blastocyst Complementation and Xenotransplantation for End-Stage Liver Disease

MJ Blake, CJ Steer - Hepatic Medicine: Evidence and Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) currently serves as the sole definitive treatment for
thousands of patients suffering from end-stage liver disease; and the existing supply of …