Cerebrovascular Involvement in Liposome—Induced Cardiopulmonary Distress in Pigs

Abstract

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Human Clinical Relevance of the Porcine Model of Pseudoallergic Infusion Reactions

“…Table 1 lists 30 experimental studies [15, which utilized the pig model to analyze the cardiopulmonary adverse effects of different nanoparticles (NPs) or other agents. Some of these studies highlighted the concordance of HSR symptoms in pigs and hypersensitive patients [25][26][27][28][29]32,33,[46][47][48], others addressed the mechanism of HSRs [15,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]36,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47], and yet others focused on the prevention of HSRs by pharmacological intervention [15], or by optimizing the structure [24,44] or administration protocol [24,37,48] of NPs. Importantly, many of these studies were initiated mainly for preclinical safety evaluation of nanomedicines [15,22,23,30,31,35,…”

Studies in Rheoencephalography (REG)

“…Based upon the above-mentioned facts, we hypothesized the involvement of cerebrovascular change during liposome infusion. Further details see [54,111]. This study can be an animal model of human vasospam.…”

Comirnaty-induced cardiopulmonary distress and other symptoms of complement-mediated pseudo-anaphylaxis in a hyperimmune pig model: Causal role of anti-PEG antibodies

“…Since its first description in 1999 [24] , pigs have been used to study liposome- and other NP-induced HSRs [28] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] , [45] . Although criticized for overt sensitivity, this feature is uniquely beneficial when rare diseases need to be studied [38] , such as vaccine-induced anaphylaxis.…”