Xenotransplantation — A special case of One Health
The chronic shortage of human transplants to treat tissue and organ failure has led to the development of xenotransplantation, the transplantation of cells, tissues and organs from another species to human recipients. For a number of reasons, pigs are best suited as donor animals. Successful, routin...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-06-01
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Series: | One Health |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771416300775 |