Xenotransplantation – Does it have a Future in Clinical Medicine?
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Kaushik Bharati, PhD Transplantation generally means removal of tissue(s) or organ(s) from a recently deceased person (the donor), and replacing into a living person (the recipient) whose organ is non-functional i.e. defective or damaged. Types of Transplantation Immunologically speaking, transplantation is of three types – autologous transplantation, allogeneic transplantation, and xenogeneic transplantation. When a tissue is taken from one part of the body and transplanted into another site on...
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