Luo, Weifeng
Feldman, Daniel
McCallister, Reid
Brophy, Colleen
Cheung-Flynn, Joyce http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5369-9244
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL70715-09, R01HL105731-01)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (I01BX002036)
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR000445)
Article History
Received: 24 October 2016
Accepted: 25 August 2017
First Online: 13 September 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Drs. Brophy and Cheung-Flynn are inventors on U.S. Patent 8691556 and disclose that they have financial relationships with VasoPrep Surgical, Inc. (Morristown, NJ).
: 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. All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.