Ramotar, Padmanie
Hemshekhar, Mahadevappa
Altieri, Anthony
M van der Does, Anne
Pascoe, Christopher D
Mookherjee, Neeloffer
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-2020-06599)
Article History
Received: 14 August 2025
Accepted: 31 December 2025
First Online: 14 January 2026
Declarations
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: Venous blood was obtained from healthy volunteers with informed written consent, approved by the University of Manitoba’s Human Research Ethics Board (Protocol #: HS11105, H2010:259). Human primary bronchial epithelial cells (PBEC) were isolated from macroscopically normal lung tissue obtained from patients undergoing resection surgery for lung cancer at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Netherlands. Lung tissue donors were enrolled in the biobank via a no-objection system for coded anonymous further use of such tissue ( ) and samples were approved for research use by the institutional medical ethical committee (BB22.006/AB/ab). Since 01-09-2022, patients are enrolled in the biobank using written informed consent in accordance with local regulations from the LUMC biobank with approval by the institutional medical ethical committee (B20.042/KB/kb).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.