Gao, Jiangyuan
Cui, Jing Z.
Wang, Aikun
Chen, Hao Hang Rachel
Fong, Alison
Matsubara, Joanne A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3689-3117
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Article History
Received: 27 May 2019
Accepted: 14 August 2019
First Online: 22 August 2019
Ethics approval
: All animal procedures were approved by the Animal Care Committee of the University of British Columbia, conformed to the guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care, and were in accordance with the Resolution on the Use of Animals in Research of the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Efforts were made to ensure animal welfare and to minimize their pain, distress, and discomfort whenever possible. Primary human fetal RPE cells were isolated from human fetal donor eyes and used for the current study under the guidelines and regulations of the Clinical Research Ethics Board at the University of British Columbia, in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. This study does not involve human participants and human data.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.