Barreiros, Luisa
Silva, Eduarda M. P.
Alencastre, Inês S.
Lamghari, Meriem
Segundo, Marcela A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Regional Development Fund (UIDB/50006/2020)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UIDB/50006/2020)
Article History
Received: 11 June 2020
Accepted: 16 July 2020
First Online: 29 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: All animal procedures were approved by the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular/Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica Ethics Committee and by the Portuguese Agency for Animal Welfare (Direção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária) in compliance with the European Community Council Directive of September 22, 2010 (2010/63/UE). Experiments were conducted by Federation for Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA), category C–graded researchers, and all efforts were made to minimize the number of animals used and any pain or discomfort during the performance of the experiments. MCF7 cells, a human breast cancer cell line derived from a lung metastasis (HTB-22), were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA).
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.