short note on: Animals as organ donors for humans.
Animals as organ donors for humans. Organ transplantation from animals to humans is called xenotransplantation. The first experiment was done in 1906 by French Surgeon Mathieu Jaboulay who implanted a pig’s kidney into one woman and a goat’s liver into another woman, but it was not successful. Though now, organ transplantation from animals has been made possible in America and the United Kingdom. Of all, baboons and pigs have favored xenotransplant donors. Pig organs have been transplanted to humans several times in the last few years. Baboons are genetically close to humans, so they are most often used. Six baboon kidneys were transplanted into humans in 1964. Today, however, xenotransplantation is still experimental and there is a serious risk to the procedures.
