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Article History

Received: 3 April 2017

Accepted: 8 February 2018

First Online: 17 February 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study does not use samples from diseased persons. The blood used for the preparation of monocyte-derived macrophages was from healthy blood donor voluntaries. For this, no study approval was necessary. The only authorization required was that obtained from the Blood Collection Service of the Pizzardi Hospital in Bologna, Italy, which keeps the rights on donors’ blood samples. This authorization is available to the Editor.

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