TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,D.K.C. AU - Lanza,R.P. TI - XENO: the promise of transplanting animal organs into humans SN - 9780195351828 AV - RD120.7 .C665 2000eb U1 - 617.9/5 22 PY - 2000/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Xenografts KW - Transplantation immunology KW - Organ Transplantation KW - Ethics KW - Tissue Transplantation KW - Transplantation, Heterologous KW - Transplantation Immunology KW - Greffe (Chirurgie) KW - Aspect moral KW - Hétérogreffes KW - Immunologie KW - MEDICAL KW - Surgery KW - Plastic & Cosmetic KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index; An appreciation; Foreword; Preface: The next great medical revolution?; Acknowledgments; 1 The End of the Night Shift: Organ transplantation today and tomorrow; 2 Animal Attraction: Supply and demand in the world of organ transplantation; 3 From Icarus to the First Heart Transplant: Man's early attempts to bridge the species gap; 4 All Animals Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal than Others: The choice of donor; 5 Zero Tolerance: The rejection of animal organs; 6 A Spoonful of Sugar: Preventing rejection; 7 The "Humanized" Pig: Manipulating the genes of the donor N2 - The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today. But the current critical shortage of human donor organs has had one positive consequence: it has stimulated promising new research into the field of xenotransplantation--the transplantation of organs from one animal species to another. In Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs Into Humans, David Cooper and Robert Lanza explore what may become one of the greatest medical advances of the 21st century. As scientists genetically engi UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=279094 ER -