Mallis, Panagiotis http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9429-190X
Oikonomidis, Charalampos
Dimou, Zetta
Stavropoulos-Giokas, Catherine
Michalopoulos, Efstathios
Katsimpoulas, Michalis
Article History
Received: 23 January 2021
Revised: 1 March 2021
Accepted: 14 March 2021
First Online: 20 May 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest for this study.
: The study protocol involved the harvest of kidneys from Wistar Rats, weighing 300–350 gr. All care and handling of the animals were provided according to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of BRFAA, conformed to the Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament, and has been approved by the Bioethics Committee of BRFAA (ref 25–2019). The WJ-MSCs used in the current research study were provided by the Hellenic Cord Blood Bank (HCBB) located at the Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens (BRFAA). All human umbilical cords, used for the WJ-MSCs, were accompanied by informed consent and signed by the mothers before the delivery. In addition all human umbilical cords were derived from male donors. Also, the informed consent was in accordance with the ethical standards of the Greek National Ethical Committee and has been accepted by the Institution’s ethical board (Ref 2578/32).