Larson, Amy
Chin, Michael T. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-8498
Funding for this research was provided by:
American Heart Association (18IPA34170294)
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR002544)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (F32HL147492)
Article History
Received: 14 December 2020
Accepted: 10 June 2021
First Online: 15 June 2021
Declarations
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: Deidentified human heart tissue from organ donors was obtained from New England Donor Services with permission from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Tufts Medical Center, who deemed the work as not human subjects research. Organ donors or their surrogates had previously provided written consent to New England Donor Services prior to organ donation. Human myectomy tissue was obtained under a Tufts Medical Center Institutional Review Board approved protocol # 9487. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant. Discarded pig heart tissue was obtained from Dr. Navin Kapur operating under a protocol approved by the Tufts Medical Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. The entire study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Tufts Medical Center as a condition of funding from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.