Table 1.
Conditioning regimen received | Total number of Bone marrow cells/Kg recipient weight | Duration of detectable peripheral chimerism | Increase in anti-non-Gal IgG levels | Increase in anti-non-Gal IgM levels | Bone marrow Chimerism at day 28 | Invitro cellular response by MLR to GalT-KO pig PBMC after stopping immunosupression. | |
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B156 | Basic | 1 × 10^ 9 | Minutes | No | No | Detected | Not Tested |
B158 | Basic | 7.5 × 10^ 8 | Minutes | No | No | Detected | Specific hyporesponse to donor |
B270 | Basic | 1.6 × 10 ^ 9 | Minutes | Yes | No | Not detectable | Proliferation to GalT-KO pig donor |
B265 | Enhanced | 4.56 × 10 ^ 9 | 2 days | Yes | No | Not detectable | Proliferation to GalT-KO pig donor |
B284 | Enhanced | 5.3 × 10^9 | 4 days | Yes | Yes | Not detectable | Proliferation to GalT-KO pig donor |
Basic conditioning regimen: Total Body Irradiation (150 cGy), Thymic irradiation (700 cGy), 2 doses of loCD2b (4mg/kg/dose), 1 dose of Rabbit ATG (20 mg/kg/dose), Splenectomy and continuous tacrolimus to day 28.
Enhanced Conditioning regimen: [Total Body Irradiation (150cGy), Thymic irradiation, (700cGy) 2 doses of loCD2b (4mg/kg/dose), 2 doses of Horse ATG (50 mg/kg/dose), Splenectomy,] plus Rituximab (20 mg/kg/dose), Velcade (1.3mg/kg/m2 BSA), 1 hour Immuno-adsorption and continuous tacrolimus to day 28.