How To Use Xenotransplant In A Sentence
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The main ethical problems included the health risks for the transplant recipient (e.g., a substantial risk of hyperacute rejection and graft-versus-host disease), traditional animal ethics issues, concerns about informed consent (complicated by empirical uncertainties and the possibility of legally mandated life-long health surveillance), fair allocation of health care resources, and the public health issue that xenotransplantation would allow viruses to jump the species barrier into humans.
Human/Non-Human Chimeras
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Xenotransplanters must overcome the problems of rejection, from the sugar-related hyperacute rejection to the insidiously slow T cell run processes of acute and chronic rejection.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Xenotransplantation is currently an experimental technique only.
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Patients undergoing xenotransplantation will be especially vulnerable, because their natural defences are down.
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This work is making the possibility of xenotransplants much closer than ever before.
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The clinical use of porcine xenotransplant is gaining wide acceptance the world over, said Dr. Cherian.
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The ethics of xenotransplantation are relatively unworrying.
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America's Food and Drug Administration has already published draft guidelines for xenotransplantation.