Jornal de Transplante Clínico e Experimental

Abstrato

Xenotransplantation uses: An overview

Jorge D. Reyes

Xenotransplantation (xenos- from the Greek meaning "foreign" or strange), or heterologous transplant, is that the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to a different. Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenografts or xenotransplants. It’s contrasted with allotransplantation (from other individual of same species), syngeneic transplantation or isotransplantation (grafts transplanted between two genetically identical individuals of an equivalent species) and autotransplantation (from one a part of the body to a different within the same person).