Xenotransplantation
Subtitle: Basic Research and Clinical Applications
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: May 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780896036741
Subjects: Medical ethics; Transplant surgery; Surgery - General; Biotechnology (General); Organ Transplantation; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Xenografts; Immunology; Medical / Immunology; Biotechnology
First sentence: The transplantation of organs, tissues, or cells between individuals of different species has been of increasing interest in recent years because the use of animals as organ and tissue donors as a source of transplants would overcome the severe and worsening shortage of human organs available for transplantation.