Jaber, Vivian R.
Zhao, Yuhai
Sharfman, Nathan M.
Li, Wenhong
Lukiw, Walter J. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5500-4402
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Aging (NIA AG18031 and NIA AG038834)
LSU Eye Center from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2019
Accepted: 2 May 2019
First Online: 10 June 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All acquisition, handling, experimental, and analytical procedures involving postmortem human brain tissues were carried out in an ethical manner in strict accordance with the ethics review board policies at brain and tissue donor institutions and at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center. Informed consent from next of kin was obtained at brain and tissue donor institutions for all tissue samples prior to autopsy and donation; coded postmortem brain tissue samples (containing no personal identifying information of the donors) were obtained from the 18 brain and tissue banks listed in the “Acknowledgments” section above. The ethical use of postmortem human brain tissues and their analyses were also carried out in strict accordance with the Institutional Biosafety Committee and the Institutional Review Board Committee (IBC/IRBC) ethical guidelines IBC#18059 and IRBC#6774 at the LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.