Song, Lili
Sun, Zhen
Kim, Do-sung
Gou, Wenyu
Strange, Charlie
Dong, Huansheng
Cui, Wanxing
Gilkeson, Gary
Morgan, Katherine A.
Adams, David B.
Wang, Hongjun
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK097544 and DK099696)
Article History
Received: 28 February 2017
Revised: 9 May 2017
Accepted: 3 July 2017
First Online: 30 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All mouse surgical procedures were approved by the Animal Care Committee at the Medical University of South Carolina (protocol #AR3055). ASCs were harvested from a small piece of fat tissue from chronic pancreatitis patients undergoing pancreatic surgery who gave informed consent for the study under protocols approved by the Medical University of South Carolina Internal Review Board (Pro00028011).
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