Diabetes Care. 1982 Nov-Dec; 5 Suppl 2(): 180.

Treatment of a diabetic vegetarian with human insulin (recombinant DNA): a case report.

Scarpello JH.

A patient with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is described. He refused treatment with conventional (animal-derived) insulin since it would have compromised his principles as a vegetarian. Therapy was successfully instituted with human insulin (recombinant DNA).