Sousa, Cláudia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9070-9544
Rigueiro-Neves, Mariana
Miranda, Telma
Alegria, Paulo
Vale, José
Passos, Ana Margarida
Langdon, Dawn
Sá, Maria José
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bayer
Article History
Received: 8 May 2018
Accepted: 7 October 2018
First Online: 17 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All patients and all healthy control subjects provided written informed consent to participation in the study. The Ethics Committees of Centro Hospital S. João, Oporto and Ethics Committees Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Loures, granted approval for the research project.
: Not applicable.
: MJS has received consulting/speaker fees from Bayer, Biogen, CSL Behring, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi and Teva.DL has participated in speaker bureau for Bayer, Merck, Almirall, Execemed, TEVA, Roche, Novartis, Biogen, Sanofi; has had consultancy from Novartis, Bayer, Merck, Biogen, TEVA, Sanofi; has had research grants from Bayer, Merck, Novartis, Biogen. All are paid into DL’s institution.The other authors have nothing to disclose regarding this study.
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