Whitaker, Kara M.
Wilcox, Sara
Liu, Jihong
Blair, Steven N.
Pate, Russell R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32-GM081740)
Office of the Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina
Article History
Received: 5 July 2015
Accepted: 17 August 2015
First Online: 3 September 2015
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Kara M. Whitaker, Sara Wilcox, Jihong Liu, Steven N. Blair and Russell R. Pate declares that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.