Delfs, Katharina
Berndt, Rouven
Hess, Katharina
Eimer, Christine
Fändrich, Fred
Steinfath, Markus
Zitta, Karina
Albrecht, Martin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2580-768X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel
Article History
Received: 7 August 2025
Accepted: 10 March 2026
First Online: 31 March 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the University Medical Center Schleswig–Holstein, Kiel, Germany (protocol identification: D519/18 and D518/13). All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all individual participants prior to inclusion.
: Not applicable.
: The authors (MA, RB, KZ, FF, KD) are involved in a pending patent ("Regulatory Macrophages for the Modulation of Senescence in Human Endothelial Cells"). The authors (MA, RB, FF) have provided consultancy services to Ferring Ventures.