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Treponema pallidum induces the activation of endothelial cells via macrophage-derived exosomes

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00403-018-01888-4

Published Online: 2019-02-02

Published Print: 2019-03

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Authors

Xu, Bu-Fang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2707-1776
Wang, Qian-Qiu

Zhang, Jing-Ping

Hu, Wen-Long

Zhang, Rui-Li
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

the Union Innovation Team Project of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-3021)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (8177080965)

the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81601804)

the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BK20150121)

the PUMC Youth Fund of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2017310056)
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Article History

Received: 22 October 2018

Revised: 11 December 2018

Accepted: 28 December 2018

First Online: 2 February 2019

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

: All animal experimentation was conducted following the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and according to protocols reviewed and approved by the Nanjing Military Region CDC in China. The experimental rabbits were anaesthetized with urethane and killed under air embolism by euthanasia. The project licence number (2017-KY-010) was assigned by the ethics committee that approved our animal experiments.