Successful removal of blood group A/B antigen in organs by ex vivo and in vivo administration of endo-beta-galacgtosidase (ABase)

¹Department of Applied Immunology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; ²Research Center for Animal Hygiene and Food Safety, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan;³Department of Transplant Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; ⁵Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA;⁶Department of Developmental Biology, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, E-mail: [email protected]