Monsuur, Hanneke N.
Weijers, Ester M.
Gibbs, Susan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3446-6138
van den Broek, Lenie J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nederlandse Brandwonden Stichting (13.101)
Eurostars (E8855)
Article History
Received: 28 January 2019
Accepted: 11 June 2019
First Online: 17 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Human skin was obtained from healthy individuals undergoing routine surgical procedures.The discarded skin was collected anonymously if patients or legal guardians, had not objected to use of their rest material (opt-out system). Foreskin from young healthy individuals after circumcision (age < 6 years) and human adult tissue from individuals undergoing abdominal dermolipectomy (age > 18 years) was used. Tissue collection procedures were in compliance with the ‘Code for Proper Secondary Use of Human tissue’ as formulated by the Dutch Federation of Medical Scientific Organization () and with the approval of the local medical research ethics committee (MREC) of the Amsterdam UMC.
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.