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Who is the piglet used in research on newborn and preterm infants?
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Correspondence to:
R Lindemann
Professor in Neonatology, Director Neonatal Intensive Carte Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Ullevål University Hospital, NO-0407 Oslo, Norway; roli@uus.no
Accepted 30 August 2004
Keywords: animal research; neonatology; newborn pig; piglet
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There are many ethical questions concerning research on preterm and newborn infants, why much has to be done on animals. Therefore, research has been, and is continuously done, on newborn lambs, monkeys, pigs, mice, and rats. During the last decades, the use of "piglets" as research animals has become more and more usual. But, what is a piglet, or actually what or who is a piglet?
Doing a search on the database PubMed, more than 2000 articles was found using the term "piglet", the first cited in 1956.1 Later, the term "newborn piglet" is more often used and is cited more than 1000 times. A newborn pig, however, is cited almost 7000 times.
A search through the presentations at the 2004 Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting in San Francisco 2004, 25 abstracts used the term "piglet", of which 11 were "newborn piglet", while 15 used the term "newborn pigs".2 Therefore,
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