Xenotransplantation : an overview of the field / Veronica Tisato and Emanuele Cozzi -- Cloning and expression analyses of pig genes / Mireia Uribe-Herranz and Cristina Costa -- Basic analyses of proteins of interest for xenotransplantation / Studies on carbohydrate xenoantigens / Dale Christiansen ... [et al.] -- Xenoantibodies and complement activity determinations in pig-to-primate xenotransplantation / Nieves Domenech -- Studies on coagulation incompatibilities for xenotransplantation / Cristiana Bulato, Claudia Radu, and Paolo Simioni -- Cellular studies for in vitro modeling of xenogeneic immune responses / Roberta Sommaggio, Magdiel Perez-Cruz, and Cristina Costa -- Production of transgenic and knockout pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer / Angelica M. Giraldo, Suyapa Ball, and Kenneth R. Bondioli -- Small animal models of xenotransplantation / Hao Wang -- Heart xenotransplantation in primate models / Johannes Postrach ... [et al.] -- Xenogeneic lung transplantation models / Lars Burdorf, Agnes M. Azimzadeh, and Richard N. Pierson, III -- Thymic transplantation in pig-to-nonhuman primates for the induction of tolerance across xenogeneic barriers / Kazuhiko Yamada and Joseph Scalea -- Isolation of porcine pancreatic islets for xenotransplantation / Karin Ulrichs ... [et al.] -- Pig neural cells derived from foetal mesencephalon as cell source for intracerebral xenotransplantation / Xavier Leveque ... [et al.] -- Hepatocyte xenotransplantation / Katia R. F. Lima-Quaresma ... [et al.] -- In vitro repair model of focal articular cartilage defects in humans / Diaz Prado SM, Fuentes-Boquete IM, and Blanco FJ -- Potential zoonotic infection of porcine endogenous retrovirus in xenotransplantation / Giada Mattiuzzo, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, and Linda Scobie -- Ethical and regulatory issues for clinical trials in xenotransplantation / Jorge Guerra Gonzalez -- Some ethical, social, and legal considerations of xenotransplantation / Maria Jorqui Azofra and Carlos Maria Romeo Casabona