Mishra, Dhruva K.
Miller, Ross A.
Pence, Kristi A.
Kim, Min P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (Second John W. Kirklin Research Scholarship)
Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group (Grant)
Michael M. And Joan H. Cone Research Award (Grant)
Article History
Received: 24 July 2017
Accepted: 11 April 2018
First Online: 18 April 2018
Ethics approval
: All of the animal experiments were carried out in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies governing the use of laboratory animal in research. The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IUCAC) at the Houston Methodist Research Institute approved the protocols for animal experiments (AUP-0716-0037).
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