Chaubey, Sushma
Thueson, Sam
Ponnalagu, Devasena
Alam, Mohammad Afaque
Gheorghe, Ciprian P.
Aghai, Zubair
Singh, Harpreet
Bhandari, Vineet http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-6636
Funding for this research was provided by:
Drexel University (270926, 282656)
National Institutes of Health (R01-HL133050-01)
American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid (16GRNT29430000)
Article History
Received: 7 December 2017
Revised: 25 April 2018
Accepted: 13 May 2018
First Online: 26 June 2018
Ethics approval
: The collection of umbilical cord was approved by the Drexel University Institutional Review Board with a waiver of consent, as umbilical cords are considered discarded material. All experiments conformed to the guidelines issued by the committee on animal research of Drexel University. The study has been approved by the ethics board of Jefferson Hospital University.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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