Nalbach, Lisa
Schmitt, Beate M.
Becker, Vivien
Scheller, Anja
Laschke, Matthias W.
Menger, Michael D.
Ampofo, Emmanuel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1886-5657
Article History
Received: 1 March 2019
Accepted: 10 May 2019
First Online: 27 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.All experiments were approved by the local governmental animal protection committee (Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz, Abteilung C Lebensmittel- und Veterinärwesen, Saarbrücken, Germany; permit number 45/2018). They were performed according to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council, Washington DC, USA) and the European legislation on protection of animals (Guide line 2010/63/EU).For the generation of human citrate plasma, venous blood was drawn from four healthy human volunteers after obtaining their written informed consent and with the approval of the local ethics review board.