Colhoun, Andrew F.
Speich, John E.
Cooley, Lauren F.
Bell, Eugene D. III
Barbee, R. Wayne
Guruli, Georgi
Ratz, Paul H.
Klausner, Adam P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01 DK101719, R01 DK101719)
Virginia Commonwealth University (Presidential Research Quest Fund, Presidential Research Quest Fund)
Article History
Received: 11 July 2016
Accepted: 16 December 2016
First Online: 26 December 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Drs. Speich and Klausner report funding from the National Institutes of Health. Drs. Colhoun, Cooley, Bell, Barbee, Guruli and Ratz have no disclosures.
: 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 experiments involving human bladder tissue were approved by the institutional review boards at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Informed consent was obtained from all patients involved in this study.