11.   Teresa Shafer, executive vice president of LifeGift Organ Donation, the Houston-based organ bank, is a strong proponent of the current UNOS system.

12.   That depleted organ bank is an unanticipated and underappreciated dark side of the otherwise upbeat trends of declining crime rates and growing acceptance of seat belts.

13.   The cells can be obtained from donor eyes at organ banks and then grown and multiplied in the lab.

14.   The organ bank contacted Sanders and she agreed.

15.   The organ bank then transports the organ to the transplant center where the recipient is waiting.

16.   The organ bank would get back to him.

17.   The regional organ bank calls a transplant team, which goes into surgery to remove organs.

18.   There was no such thing as a national organ bank.

19.   When donor organs become available, they are allocated to patients who are sickest and have been waiting the longest, said Betsy Strock at the organ bank.

20.   Others have worked to improve the relationship between hospitals and organ banks so that more potential donors are identified.