Hussin, Hanita Mohd
Lawi, Mahazura Mat
Haflah, Nor Hazla Mohamed
Kassim, Abdul Yazid Mohd
Idrus, Ruszymah Bt Hj
Lokanathan, Yogeswaran http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9548-6490
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani Malaysia (NH 1014 D048)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (FF-2017-175 & GUP-2017-007).)
Article History
Received: 8 November 2019
Revised: 5 December 2019
Accepted: 17 December 2019
First Online: 8 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: The animal study was approved by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Animal Ethics Committee (TEC/PP/2016/YOGESWARAN/18-MAY/747-MAY-2016-FEB.-2018). For the isolation of human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSCs), the written informed consents were obtained from healthy women who delivered full-term infants (38–40 weeks) by elective caesarian delivery prior to the collection of umbilical cord samples. The usage of human umbilical cord samples from consenting patients in this study was approved by the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Research Ethics Committee (FF-2015-175).