Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine, Volume. 45, Issue 4, 379(2025)
Construction and Functional Validation of GTKO/hCD55 Gene-Edited Xenotransplant Donor Pigs
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WANG Jiaoxiang, ZHANG Lu, CHEN Shuhan, JIAO Deling, ZHAO Heng, WEI Taiyun, GUO Jianxiong, XU Kaixiang, WEI Hongjiang. Construction and Functional Validation of GTKO/hCD55 Gene-Edited Xenotransplant Donor Pigs[J]. Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine, 2025, 45(4): 379
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Received: Feb. 20, 2025
Accepted: Sep. 10, 2025
Published Online: Sep. 10, 2025
The Author Email: WEI Hongjiang (hongjiangwei@126.com)
