Pervaiz, Asim
Zepp, Michael
Georges, Rania
Bergmann, Frank
Mahmood, Saqib
Faiza, Syeda
Berger, Martin R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-5365
Adwan, Hassan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
Article History
Received: 2 July 2020
Accepted: 1 September 2020
First Online: 9 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Animal experiments were approved by the relevant governmental animal ethics committee (Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe, Germany) and all institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. For clinical investigations, the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen, Germany and the Ethical Review Committee for Medical and Biomedical Research, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. Informed consent was obtained from all patients and healthy controls. The procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.