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From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher)
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Subject: Re: Baboon heart in a Human!
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 12:49:31 EST
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The answers to most of the questions raised on the baboon heart
are basically, "We just don't know what will happen."

There is so little experience in this area, that the aging effects of the
baboon heart are impossible to predict.  Baboon life expectancy is shorter
(I can't remember if I read 30, 40, or 50 years for this type), but it is
not known if the heart's growth rate and aging will track that of the
donor baboon, or that of the recipient.  Theories expounding both points of
view have been proposed.

Bob Schleicher
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