Animal Organ Donors: Human Health Applications

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June 4, 2004
Issue Paper

Animal Organ Donors: Human Health Applications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62300/ban6zf35

Task Force Chairs

Jeffrey L. Platt

Departments of Surgery, Immunology, and Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Randall S. Prather

Department of Animal Science, University of Missouri–Columbia

Abstract

This issue paper examines current and future concerns and benefits for using animals as organ and tissue donors (xenotransplantation). The authors provide a careful review of the procedure's history and development, as well as an outline of possible applications for the future as xenotransplantation impacts human health.

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Reviewers

Jorge A. Piedrahita

Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Kenneth L. White

Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences Department, Utah State University, Logan

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