Wedekind, Hanna
Walz, Kristina
Buchbender, Mayte
Rieckmann, Thorsten
Strasser, Erwin
Grottker, Fridolin
Fietkau, Rainer
Frey, Benjamin
Gaipl, Udo S
Rückert, Michael
Funding for this research was provided by:
izkf
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
Article History
Received: 21 June 2021
Accepted: 15 September 2021
First Online: 19 October 2021
Declarations
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: H. Wedekind, K. Walz, M. Buchbender, T. Rieckmann, E. Strasser, F. Grottker, R. Fietkau, B. Frey, U.S. Gaipl and M. Rückert declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants or on human tissue were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were isolated from leukoreduction system chamber (LRSC) of healthy, anonymous donors having undergone a strict health control by the Transfusion Medicine and Hemostaseology Department of the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany. The allowance to use this LRSC was given by the ethical committee of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (ethical approval No: 180_13 B and 48_19 B) according to the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki in its current form.