ADVANCING KIDNEY XENOTRANSPLANTATION WITH ANESTHESIA AND SURGERY - BRIDGING PRECLINICAL AND CLINICAL FRONTIERS CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Advancing kidney xenotransplantation with anesthesia and surgery - bridging preclinical and clinical frontiers challenges and prospects

Xenotransplantation is emerging as a vital solution to the critical shortage of organs available for transplantation, significantly propelled by advancements in genetic engineering and the development of sophisticated immunosuppressive treatments.Specifically, the transplantation of kidneys from genetically engineered pigs into human patients has m

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The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus: What Next?

ABSTRACT History suggests that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus faces extinction unless it mutates to avoid already high global population immunity.The immune escape mechanisms potentially at its disposal include antigenic drift, antigenic shift via genetic reassortment, and intrasubtypic reassortment.Going back to the late 19th century, the

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Offering an auto-play feature likely increases total gambling activity at online slot-machines: preliminary evidence from an interrupted time series experiment at a real-life online casino

Auto-play is a ubiquitous feature in online casino gambling and virtual slot machines especially, allowing gamblers to initiate spin sequences of pre-set length and value.While theoretical accounts diverge on the hypothesized causal effect on gambling behavior of using the auto-play feature, observational Miller Engine Drive Parts findings show tha

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Carlo Scarpa: architecture, abstraction and museology

The last year that Carlo Scarpa taught at the IUAV, he proposed a civic museum as the topic of the course, in particular in the old Santa Caterina Convent in Treviso, which is currently the headquarters of the archive of the architect.The issue of the museology was developed during the lessons given at the University and dealt with several of his m

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