Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma as an animal model for human lung cancer, because OPA is histologically similar to human adenocarcinoma in situ of the lung. Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell, was euthanized after it was confirmed that she had OPA. Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA), also known as ovine pulmonary adenomatosis, or jaagsiekte, is a chronic and contagious disease of the lungs of sheep and goats. OPA is caused by a retrovirus called jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV). The disease has a long incubation period, and therefore signs usually occur in adult animals (over 2
European Coalition to End Animal Experiments European Coalition to End Animal Experiments The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) is a European organisation actively operating in favor of animal rights and in particularly, an abolishment of testing on animals. The focus is on animal testing in cosmetics and experiments with primates. The ECEAE was created in 1990 by national and regional organisations against the testing of cosmetics on animals. 18 European animal rights organisations comprise the ECEAE. The ECEA releases publications, organizes violent free actions and campaigns and lobbies in the European Parliament, against animal testing. Their goal is to form a lobby group with