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Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
Who is the piglet used in research on newborn and preterm infants?
  1. R Lindemann
  1. Correspondence to:
    R Lindemann
    Professor in Neonatology, Director Neonatal Intensive Carte Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Ullevål University Hospital, NO-0407 Oslo, Norway; roliuus.no

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2004.062521

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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 …

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