Lesteberg, Kelsey
Orange, Jordan
Makedonas, George
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (AI067946, AI053831)
Article History
First Online: 18 August 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
: Normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from 1) source leukocyte preparations received from Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, Houston, TX or 2) blood specimens collected from healthy adult donors after informed consent was obtained in accordance with protocol #H33095, reviewed and approved by the Internal Review Board of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.