The first serious attempts at xenotransplantation (then called heterotransplantation) appeared in the scientific literature in 1905, when slices of rabbit kidney were transplanted into a child with renal insufficiency.
The first serious attempts at xenotransplantation (then called heterotransplantation) appeared in the scientific literature in 1905. Princeteau transplanted slices of rabbit kidney into a child with renal insufficiency.