Uterine Autotransplantation in the Nonhuman Primate With Preservation of the Uterine and Ovarian Vascular Pedicles.

Purpose: To evaluate the technical feasibility of performing a uterine autotransplantation in the nonhuman primate while preserving the uterine and ovarian vascular pedicles.

Methods: Eight (n = 8) female baboons at a primate research facility underwent a uterine autotransplant procedure with preservation of the vascular pedicles. The uterine arteries were separated from their amorphous tissue and skeletonized toward the internal iliac arteries bilaterally.

[Recipient selection for liver transplantation].

In the last few years, there have been developments in many aspects of liver transplantation. Improvements in surgical techniques and immunosuppression markedly increased the success rates of liver transplantation. This success has lead to increasing numbers of recipients.

Genetically engineered intracellular single-chain antibodies in gene therapy.

The delineation of the molecular basis of cancer allows for the possibility of specific intervention at the molecular level for therapeutic purposes. To a large extent, the genetic lesions associated with malignant transformation and progression are being identified. Thus, not only in the context of inherited genetic diseases, but also for many acquired disorders, characteristic aberrancies of patterns of gene expression may be precisely defined.