Xenotransplantation of pig islets into Mexican children: were the fundamental ethical requirements to proceed with such a study really met?

Eur J Endocrinol. 2006 Jun;154(6):921-2; author reply 923. doi: 10.1530/eje.1.02142.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Child
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / ethics
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / standards*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Islets of Langerhans Transplantation / ethics*
  • Mexico
  • Swine
  • Transplantation, Heterologous / ethics*
  • Transplantation, Heterologous / legislation & jurisprudence