Khiatah, Bashar
Qi, Meirigeng
Du, Weiting
T-Chen, Kuan
van Megen, Kayleigh M.
Perez, Rachel G.
Isenberg, Jeffrey S.
Kandeel, Fouad
Roep, Bart O.
Ku, Hsun Teresa
Al-Abdullah, Ismail H. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7567-0453
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK099734)
Article History
Received: 8 April 2019
Revised: 26 September 2019
Accepted: 30 September 2019
First Online: 15 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research consent for the use of human tissue was obtained from the donor next of kin and ethics approval for this study was granted by the Institutional Review Board of City of Hope (IRB # 01046). In the case of bone marrow-derived MSCs, consent was obtained from donors and ethics approval for this was granted by the Medical Ethics Board of Leiden University Medical Center.
: Not applicable.
: BK, MQ, HTK, and IHA have patents pending related to this study. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.