Wang, Xue
Liu, Junnan
Azoitei, Anca
Eiseler, Tim
Meessen, Sabine
Jiang, Wencheng
Zheng, Xi
Makori, Arika W.
Eckstein, Markus
Hartmann, Arndt
Stilgenbauer, Stephan
Elati, Mohamed
Hohwieler, Meike
Kleger, Alexander
John, Axel
Zengerling, Friedemann
Wezel, Felix
Bolenz, Christian
Günes, Cagatay http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4301-2223
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (GU 569/6-1, EI792/7-1)
Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung (2019.038.1)
Universitätsklinikum Ulm
Article History
Received: 24 July 2023
Revised: 7 September 2023
Accepted: 8 September 2023
First Online: 22 September 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. All patients agreed and gave informed consent, and all analyzes. Ethical approval for the immunohistochemistry experiments on human tissue samples was obtained by the ethical review board of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Erlangen, Germany; approval number: no. 3755 and 329_16B). For the two urothelium samples, ureters were collected from patients, who underwent a nephrectomy at the Urology Department, at the University of Ulm. The studies were conducted with the patients' written consent and with the local research ethics committee’s approval (239/18). The animal experiments were conducted with the approval of the Baden Württemberg animal d committee (animal experiment number: (35/9185.81-3/1326)).