But how could this possibly happen in humans? To explore chimerism in humans, we must first understand how it can happen in the first place. Chimerism in humans can occur when a mom is pregnant ...

Induction of reverse chimerism in renal allografts by mobilizing host stem cells from the bone marrow enables long-term graft acceptance in animal models, say Zhaoli Sun and colleagues.

该研究通过开发纳米抗体-抗原策略，改善了不同物种细胞之间的粘附，并提高了人类细胞在小鼠胚胎中的嵌合度。该研究为理解和操控异种细胞粘附 ...

Only about 100 or so cases of chimerism have been recorded in modern medical literature. Chimerism can also affect nonhuman animals. Often, it causes two distinct types of colorings on different ...

1 The term ‘chimerism’ as now applied to describe a state in which an organism possesses cells derived from two or more distinct zygote lineages, also has potential impact on function and ...

Up till recently, scientists thought that this chimerism only applies to blood cells. But Corinna Ross and colleagues proved otherwise. They took DNA fingerprints of different organs from 36 twin ...

The scientific term is tetragametic chimerism, although the origin of that word is hardly scientific. The ancient Greek Chimera was a mythical monster with the body and fire-breathing head of a ...

The patient had persistent mixed chimerism, and the function of the kidney allograft has been normal for more than 28 months since discontinuation of all immunosuppressive drugs. Adverse events ...

Complete hematopoietic chimerism and tolerance of a liver allograft from a deceased male donor developed in a 9-year-old girl, with no evidence of graft-versus-host disease 17 months after ...

Chimerism occurs when a person absorbs their twin who died in the womb, leaving them with two sets of DNA, blood cells and immune systems. One set of genes is found in one organ or region of the ...

Human chimerism hit the headlines this week after it was revealed that a man had failed a paternity test because he had the condition — which meant that the genetic father of his child was his ...