Frozen rabbit kidneys could solve shortage

• Autores: Helen Thomson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3066, 2016, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Francisco Marco-Jimenez at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and his colleagues have found a source of kidneys that don't seem to cause immune rejection when transplanted between rabbits, and that can be stored for several months while awaiting transplantation. The team found that when precursor kidney tissue from 16-day-old rabbit embryos is implanted in adult rabbits, it develops into an adult kidney, connecting itself to the host's blood supply. The adult rabbits didn't reject the foreign kidneys because the embryonic tissue was transplanted before it had started producing the protein that would alert a host's immune system to foreign cells. Marco-Jimenez believes that when the protein is eventually produced, it matches that of the host instead