Zhao, Ying-jie
Zhou, Chi
Wei, Ying-ying
Li, Hui-hui
Lei, Wei
Boeldt, Derek S.
Wang, Kai http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0995-9774
Zheng, Jing http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2224-2372
Funding for this research was provided by:
national institutes of health (RO3 HD100778)
american heart association (17POST33670283, 19CDA34660348)
institute for clinical and translational research, university of wisconsin, madison (UL1TR002373, UL1TR002373)
Article History
Received: 13 July 2021
Accepted: 29 September 2021
First Online: 7 October 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All the tissue samples were collected with written informed consent. The blood sample collection was approved by the Scientific and Ethical Committee of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Tongji University (Protocol number: KS2013, approved on April 20, 2020). For HUVECs, the umbilical cord collection was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Meriter Hospital, and the Health Sciences Institutional Review Boards of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Protocol number 2004–006, approved on July 26, 2018).
: All patients consented to participate and for publication with de-identified patients’ information.
: The authors declare no competing interests.