Faiz, Alen
van den Berge, Maarten
Vermeulen, Cornelis J.
ten Hacken, Nick H. T.
Guryev, Victor
Pouwels, Simon D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7345-8061
Funding for this research was provided by:
Netherlands Lung Foundation (6.2.15.044JO)
Noordelijke CARA Stichting (2016/01)
GlaxoSmithKline
Article History
Received: 24 October 2018
Accepted: 29 March 2019
First Online: 10 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Samples were used from the ‘A Study to Obtain Normal Values of Inflammatory Variables From Healthy Subjects (NORM)’ study which has been registered on ExternalRef removed with the identifier code: NCT00848406 and the medical ethic committee approval code: METc2009007. All study protocols were approved by the medical ethic committee of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands and all subjects provided written informed consent. Furthermore, all clinical procedures were performed according to the standards set by the latest Declaration of Helsinki.
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