Girolamo, Francesco http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8706-3386
de Trizio, Ignazio
Errede, Mariella
Longo, Giovanna
d’Amati, Antonio
Virgintino, Daniela
Article History
Received: 28 September 2020
Accepted: 13 February 2021
First Online: 20 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Samples of fetal brain were obtained from post-mortem fetuses derived from spontaneous abortions and received by the Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Division of Anatomical Pathology, University of Bari School of Medicine. The study was reviewed and approved from the Medical Ethics Committee of University Hospital of Bari, in compliance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki. Samples from glioblastoma were obtained during surgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich. Written informed consent was obtained from patients before study entry. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki and the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Canton Zurich.
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: All the authors declare that they have no competing interests.