TY - JOUR T1 - Who is the piglet used in research on newborn and preterm infants? JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 1130 LP - 1130 DO - 10.1136/adc.2004.062521 VL - 89 IS - 12 AU - R Lindemann Y1 - 2004/12/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/89/12/1130.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -