Sokol, Liliana
Cuypers, Anne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5956-5482
Truong, Anh-Co K.
Bouché, Ann
Brepoels, Katleen
Souffreau, Joris
Rohlenova, Katerina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3964-8472
Vinckier, Stefan
Schoonjans, Luc
Eelen, Guy
Dewerchin, Mieke http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0382-9346
de Rooij, Laura P.M.H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1810-4620
Carmeliet, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7961-1821
Article History
Received: 24 June 2022
Accepted: 1 June 2023
First Online: 17 June 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Animal housing and all experimental procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee of the KU Leuven (Belgium) under protocol number P077/2021. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were freshly isolated from umbilical cords obtained from multiple donors (newborns, soon after birth) of unknown sex with approval from the Ethics Committee Research KU Leuven/UZ Leuven under the approval number S57123 and informed consent obtained from all subjects (parents).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.