The journal of The Experimental and Clinical Transplantation (ECT) is the official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT). The Society was originally founded in Turkey in 1987, and was subsequently incorporated at Bern, Switzerland, in 1988 as a non-profit, international, scientific organization comprising 20 countries of the Middle East, North Africa, Midmid-Asia, and neighboring nations.

The aim of the journal is to provides a medium forum for where clinical scientists, basic scientists, ethicists, and public health professionals to communicate ideas and advancements advances in the field of experimental and clinical organ and tissue transplantation, and to discuss related social and ethical issues. The topics will be of interest to transplant surgeons, clinicians in all major disciplines and subspecialties, basic science researchers, and other professionals involved with sociological aspects of experimental and clinical transplantation.

The ECT Experimental and Clinical Transplantation is a peer-reviewed international publication that accepts manuscripts of full-length original articles, case reports, letters to the editor, and invited reviews. It is published in English twice yearly (a year in June & and December).

Our editorial team is committed to producing a journal of extremely high standards. The journal is fully indexed in MEDLINE, Index Medicus and Excerpta Medica. Full-text articles are available on the Internet via PubMed or at the Journal’s Web site, at http://www.ectrx.org. The journal, and the objective is to have the ECT is also available as hard-copy bound volumes, by subscription, printed on acid-free paper.