Creating human organs in chimaera pigs: An ethical source of immunocompatible organs?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 970-974

  Shaw, David ^a,b   Dondorp, Wybo ^a   Geijsen, Niels ^c   de Wert, Guido ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL WELFARE; CHIMERA; HUMAN DIGNITY; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PIG; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ETHICS; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERSONHOOD; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TRENDS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERSONHOOD; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; WAITING LISTS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84949996967     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2014-102224     Document Type: Article

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