Outline of a risk assessment: The welfare of future xeno-donor pigs

Animal Welfare

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-237

  Dahl, K ^a   Johnsen, P F ^a   Lassen, J ^a   Kornerup Hansen, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Organ donor; Risk assessment; Transgenesis; Xeno donor; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; GENE INSERTION; INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPTICEMIA; SWINE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0038076418     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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