Moreira, Bruno P.
Silva, Ana M.
Martins, Ana D.
Monteiro, Mariana P.
Sousa, Mário
Oliveira, Pedro F.
Alves, Marco G. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-783X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/BBB-BQB/1368/2014, PTDC/MEC-AND/28691/2017, IFCT2015)
Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS/BIT/SPERMBOOST)
Article History
Received: 5 May 2020
Accepted: 20 September 2020
First Online: 30 September 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The work presented in this paper resulted from the use of Clonetics™ human Sertoli cells (hSCs) (MM-HSE-2305) purchased from Lonza (Walkersville, MD, USA). Thus, ethics approval is not required according to current law and the national ethical guidelines of our country or European Directives. Nevertheless, our laboratory is authorized to work with human material, particularly human Sertoli cells and sperm samples, according to the authorization from the Joint Ethics Committee CHUP/ICBAS with the approval number 2019/CE/P017(266/CETI/ICBAS).
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.