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Funding for this research was provided by:
NIH (P30CA047904)
Article History
Received: 18 March 2024
Accepted: 15 October 2024
First Online: 22 October 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All patient tissue and blood samples were collected following ethical and technical guidelines on the use of human samples for biomedical research at the University of Pittsburgh after informed consent was obtained from patients under the Institutional Review Board Protocol (19080321). The study was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed written consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study. The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for the publication of the images in Figs. 2 and 3.