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What does it take to consent to islet cell xenotransplantation?: Insights from an interview study with type 1 diabetes patients and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: The transplantation of porcine islet cells provides a new potential therapy to treat patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Compared to other biomedical technologies, xenotransplantation stands out in terms of its involvement of animals as graft sources, as well as the possible t...

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Autores principales: Kögel, Johannes, Thiersch, Sandra, Ludwig, Barbara, Seissler, Jochen, Marckmann, Georg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33794874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00607-5