Of all animals, baboons and pigs are the favored xenotransplant donors. Baboons are genetically close to humans, so they're most often used for initial experiments. Six baboon kidneys were transplanted into humans in 1964, a baboon heart into a baby in 1984, and two baboon livers into patients in 1992.
In addition to primates, organs for xenotransplantation have been taken from pigs and sheep.
2006-08-13 21:43:07
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answered by Anonymous
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in 1984, there was a big controversy about Baby Fae who was given a baboon heart transplant. The baby died after 20 days.
2006-08-13 21:33:52
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answered by February Rain 4
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Any animal will instruct "inclinations" in over-crowded situations. It additionally is going without announcing that distinctive species gets "over-crowded" distinctive procedures: what's snug for bunnies will stress maximum tigers loopy. In nature, canines and wolves the two try this, so it rather is not truthfully blamed on the breeding. Of the extra desirable primates (apes), orang utans and bonobos (pygmy chimps) try this maximum. Dolphins and porpoises are infamous for humping regardless of is interior the water with them. And on the different end of the size, with fruit flies and different insect species, that's a particularly at as quickly as-forward factor--a unmarried genetic mutation provides upward thrust to fruit flies that are actually not rejecting of the "incorrect" pheromones, or scents (be they from an identical gender or yet another species), which ability with that mutation they are going to hump regardless of has a pulse. do not even get me began on fish and amphibians the two...component of the subject is (yeah, aside from pollution) that some species finally end up having the flexibility to alter genders reckoning on age and stipulations. which ability some fish species can, whilst they're nonetheless particularly youthful and healthful, change gears reckoning on regardless of if there is extra men around them (wherein case they turn lady), or extra women (wherein case some turn male). then you definately combine that with the feminizing outcomes of a few styles of groundwater pollution, and properly...yeah. factor is, even without pollution or over-crowding or scarce acquaintances getting interior the way, there are animals out in nature with *fluid* or versatile ideas as to what gender and mating are, at any given 2nd. i think of a few of that's in simple terms nature for you--they don't think of a lot approximately it, it rather is in basic terms a completed deed. it rather is in basic terms us people that get dangle-united statesapproximately it rather. Sorry.
2016-10-02 01:31:10
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answered by ? 4
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I had my happy place chopped off in an accident in a car accident and in the accident I killed a 8 foot python so I picked the dead snake to the hospital and they sowed it on in place of my happy thing now it has a mind of it's own when I see a cute girl it snakes out some how!
2006-08-13 21:30:05
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answered by Paul G 5
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John Doe is correct.
in some rare circumstances bovine tissue can be used
2006-08-13 21:24:04
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answered by Anonymous
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A donkey's butt, look at George W Bush's face the operation was a success.
2006-08-13 21:22:28
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answered by Spadesboffin 3
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I think some types of monkeys but Im not sure which kinds/
2006-08-13 21:23:15
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answered by Amber 4
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maybe like a snake - I a snake a lady
2006-08-13 21:22:10
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answered by Anonymous
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bovine
2006-08-13 21:23:03
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answered by Anonymous
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rats.
2006-08-13 21:25:43
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answered by ravencracks 3
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