2122615 9308848 PCTABS00021 Immunocompromised or immunosuppressed non-primate chimeric mammalian hosts comprising a neuronal graft in the eye are provided for studying various events associated with humans. Particularly, the chimeric host may have solely human fetal neuronal xenografts or other fetal xenografts with other tissue, where the various tissues may be studied as to their response to a variety of agents, their response to pathogens or other diseased states, or their response to agents for the treatment of the various indications.
INFECTION OF HUMAN NEURAL XENOGRAFTS