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Xenotransplantation - Journal Information
Xenotransplantation: journal information, contents lists and abstracts on the Blackwell Publishing website. 

Xenotransplantation (animal to human transplants
Xenotransplantation (animal to human transplants) involves horrific animal cruelty and will risk virus transfer from animals (pigs) to humans (Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus)
 
Xenotransplantation: Risks, Clinical Potential, and Future Prospects
The reemergence of xenotransplantation as a therapeutic option for the hundreds of thousands of people dying each year of heart, kidney, lung, and liver failure has raised ethical, social, and scientific questions.

eMedicine - Xenotransplantation
Xenotransplantation involves the transplantation of nonhuman tissues or organs into human recipients. The concept was pioneered a century ago, when transplanting human organs was considered ethically controversial. Grafts were quickly rejected, however, because of unknown forces later identified as immune responses. 

Moralische Probleme der Xenotransplantation
XenotransplantationMoralische Probleme der Xenotransplantation - Xenotransplantation.