1.   A hand transplant depends on public appeals for organ and tissue donors.

2.   A. I would not be giving patients immune suppression for hand transplants.

3.   But now the excitement about the hand transplants has some surgeons planning similar transplants at their own centers.

4.   But the Lousville team was upstaged by the international team that performed the hand transplant in France.

5.   Doctors hope hand transplants will become as standard as other organ transplants.

6.   Earlier, a leading medical ethicist, Dr. Mark Siegler of the University of Chicago had deemed the hand transplant a justifiable experiment.

7.   For all her caution, Mackinnon, the Washington University surgeon who criticized the hand transplant, foresees a new era.

8.   Hand transplants remain experimental and controversial.

9.   Hakim said his team is considering doing a hand transplant in London within the next year.

10.   Hallam had also applied to the Louisville team for a hand transplant.