Swine as Models in Biomedical Research

Table of Contents: Foreword; Preface; Authors; 1. MHC - Homozygous Miniature Swine; 2. Swine as a Model for Pancreatic Beta-Cell Transplantation; 3. Renal Transplantation in Swine; 4. Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Outbred and Partially Inbred Swine; 5. The Role of the Hanford Minipig as an Animal Model in Pediatric Surgery and Neonatal Intensive Care; 6. The Anephric Micropig as a Model for Peritoneal Dialysis; 7. Vascular Pharmacology of the Micropig: Importance of the Endothelium; 8. Use of Swine in the Study of Anesthetics; 9. Atherosclerotic Yucatan Microswine as a Model for Novel Cardiovascular Interventions and Imaging; 10. The spontaneously Hypercholesterolemic Pig as an Animal Model of Human Hypercholesterolemia; 11. The Yucatan Miniature Swine: An Atherogenic Model to Assess the Early Patency rates of an Endovascular Stent; 12. The Pig as a Model of Myocardial Ischemia and Gradual Coronary Artery Occlusion; 13. Congenital Cadiovascular Disease; 14. Studies in the Physiology of Cardiopulmonary Bypass Using a Swine Model; 15. Hemorrhage and Hemorrhagic Shock in Swine: A Review; 16. Awake Porcine Model of Intraperitoneal Sepsis; 17. Wound-Healing Models in the Miniature Yucatan Pig; 18. DOCA-Treatment Yucatan Miniature Swine: A Neurogenic Model of Essential Hypertension; Index.

First Edition. 328 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated. Published by Iowa State University Press, now part of Blackwell Publishing. This book is no longer available at the publisher, but may be purchased here.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8138-1472-8; ISBN-10: 0-8138-1472-3