Ferreira, Filipa P.
Pereira, Sofia S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6947-4560
Costa, Madalena M.
Guimarães, Marta
Albrechtsen, Nicolai J. Wewer
Holst, Jens J.
Nora, Mário
Monteiro, Mariana P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UIDB/00215/2020, UIDP/00215/2020 and LA/P/0064/2020)
Universidade do Porto
Article History
Received: 17 June 2022
Accepted: 1 March 2023
First Online: 15 March 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants 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. Samples collection during bariatric surgery was approved by the Institutional Ethical Committee (CA-0648/17-0c_MP/AC), and the cadaveric samples were collected in accordance with a protocol established with the National Institute of Legal Medicine in compliance with article 3, number 3, of Decree-Law number 274/99, of the 22nd of June.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.