Author: Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health
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Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Niranjan Bhattacharya
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447141717
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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Many diseases earlier considered to be incurable are now being treated with modern innovations involving fetal tissue transplants and stem cells derived from fetal tissues. Fetal tissues are the richest source of fetal stem cells as well as other varying states of differentiated cells and support or stromal cells. The activity of such stem cells is at their peak provided they are given the correct niche. Stem cells, as we know, are immortal cells with the capacity to regenerate into any kind of differentiated cell as per niche-guidance. As such, fetal tissues have the potential capacity to mend, regenerate and repair damaged cells or tissues in adults, when directly transplanted to the site of injury, or even when transplanted in some other site, because it may have a homing capacity to migrate to the site of the specific injured organ. This is a new area of translational research and needs to be highlighted because of its immense potential. This book will bring together the new work of prominent medical scientists and clinicians who are conducting pioneering research in human fetal tissue transplantation. This will include direct transplant of healthy fetal tissue into mature patients as well as in hosts with genetic diseases. Transplant techniques, donor-host interaction, cell and tissue storage, ethical and legal issues, are some of the many matters which the book will deal with.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
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Category : Fetal membranes
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author:
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Category : Abortion
Languages : en
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Author: Consultants to the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health
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Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Robert G. Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521410754
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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The most recent scientific and clinical developments and techniques in fetal tissue transplants are presented, including both the transplantation of fetal tissue into mature recipients, and the grafting of donor cells into fetuses that are known to be carrying genetic disease.

Author: Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel (U.S.)
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Category : Abortion
Languages : en
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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Fetal tissues
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309051762
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Research involving human fetuses and fetal tissue has been a subject of national debate and rancor for more than two decades. Despite the many demonstrated medical benefits of such research and the issuance of guidelines by various governmental and private ethics advisory bodies, federal support of this research has been severely curtailed. In 1993 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) sponsored a conference on fetal research and applications. This book examines the current state of fetal research and fetal tissue research. It contains an overview of research in the field and a short history on the regulatory and legislative actions governing the field. The bulk of the volume centers on ethical and legal issues of fetal research, preembryo research, fetal research, and fetal tissue transplantation. The volume also contains a full reprinting of the summary from the 1989 IOM book Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research, including the recommendations and research agenda suggested in that volume. Readers can therefore view that information in context with the suggestions and topics discussed at the conference. The background and research summarized in Fetal Research and Applications should provide insights for future progress and contribute to a fuller understanding of the social and ethical issues involved in this field.