Li, Min
Alfieri, Carlo Maria
Morello, William
Cellesi, Francesco
Armelloni, Silvia
Mattinzoli, Deborah
Montini, Giovanni
Messa, Piergiorgio http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1512-559X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (current research funds)
Article History
Received: 31 July 2019
Accepted: 2 December 2019
First Online: 18 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the authors declared no competing interests. Dr Li and Dr Rastaldi are the inventors of the 3D co-culture method (Patent application PCT/IB2010/003298, 12/2010, filed by Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano; Italian Patent December 28, 2012, No. 0001397084; European Patent August 10, 2016, No. EP2513295).
: 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. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the ethical committee of Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore – Policlnico of Milan (Ref: 1004_2019).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study and signed by adult legal guardians in case of minor age patients. The informed consent of involved patients had been previously approved by the EC of Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore—Policlnico of Milan (ITA) [M. 02. F (A)].