Die Xenotransplantation porziner Zellen, Gewebe und Organe bietet eine Möglichkeit, den immensen Mangel an geeigneten allogenen Transplantaten zu überbrücken. Die Grundvoraussetzung ist hierbei neben der Lösung immunologischer ...

Xenotransplantation using pig cells, tissues or organs is considered to be a solution to the shortage of human allotransplants. Pigs have been selected as optimal donor for several reasons, among them physiological and ...

Yaws-like lesions are widely reported in wild African great apes, yet the causative agent has not been confirmed in affected animals. We describe yaws-like lesions in a wild chimpanzee in Guinea for which we demonstrate ...

In industrialized countries, acute infectious enteric diseases are usually mild, but they can also cause death. They do so, however, at different ages. Using 2004–2008 German notification data, we computed and compared ...

Laut internationalen Studien haben Kinder und Jugendliche mit Behinderungen häufiger Karies, putzen seltener zweimal am Tag die Zähne und nehmen seltener zahnärztliche präventive Leistungen in Anspruch als Kinder und ...