Some ethical issues regarding xenotransfusion

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-221

  Roux, Françoise A ^a   Saï, Pierre ^a   Deschamps, Jack Yves ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Blood; Ethics; Pig to human; Transfusion; Xenotransfusion; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MEDICAL ETHICS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; SWINE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSGENICS; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOOD DONORS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; INFECTION; SUS SCROFA; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 34247897071     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2007.00393.x     Document Type: Review

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