It is said that fetal tissue is used in fetal tissue research, e.g., implants for Parkinson's Syndrome. In actuality, 8 week embryonic tissue is considered optimum for that procedure.
2.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Transcripts of the Human Embryo Research Panel, 1994, September 27 session, p. 2.
3.
GrobsteinClifford, “External Human Fertilization”,Scientific American, 240: 57–67, 1979.
4.
NIH, Scientific American, pp. 2–7.
5.
Clifford Grobstein, Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures, Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1988.
6.
KeithL. Moore, and PersaudT.V.N., The Developing Human, p. 135, W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1993.
7.
ParisiP., GattiM., PrinziG., and CapernaG., “Familial Incidence of Twinning, Nature, 304: 626–628, 1983.
8.
PhilippeP., “Genetic Epidemiology of Twinning”, Amer. J. Med. Gen., 20: 97–105, 1985.
9.
Clifford Grobstein, “The Status and Uses of Early Human Developmental Stages, in Ethical Issues in Research, ed. CheneyDarwin, The University Publishing Group, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, 1993.
10.
WarnockDame Mary, Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology, Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London, 27, 63, 1984.
11.
Ethics Committee of The American Fertility Society, “The Biologic Characteristics of the Preembryo”,Fertility and Sterility, Supplement 1, 46: 27s, 1986.
12.
CarlsonB.M., Human Embryology and Developmental Biology, Mosby, St. Louis, 1994.
13.
SadlerT.W., Longman's Medical Embryology, 7th ed., Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1996.
14.
BradleyM. Patten, Human Embryology, 3rd. ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968.
15.
WilliamJ. Larsen, Human Embryology, Churchhill-Livingston, New York, 1993.
16.
O'RahillyRonan, and MuellerFabiola, Human Embryology and Teratology, Wiley-Liss, New York, 1992.
17.
O'RahillyRonan, and MuellerFabiola, Human Embryology and Teratology, 2nd ed., p. 81, 1996.
18.
Nomina Embryologica, 3rd edition, in Nomina Anatomica, 6th edition. Churchill-Livingston, Edinburgh, 1989.
