Sharma, Sunita
Sapkota, Dipak
Xue, Ying
Rajthala, Saroj
Yassin, Mohammed A.
Finne-Wistrand, Anna
Mustafa, Kamal
Funding for this research was provided by:
L. Meltzers Høyskolefond
The European Union FP7, VascuBone (242175)
Article History
Received: 21 July 2017
Revised: 12 January 2018
Accepted: 16 January 2018
First Online: 31 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All animal experiments were approved by the Norwegian Animal Research Authority and conducted according to the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrates used for Scientific Purposes (local approval number 4940). The normal human oral mucosa specimen was collected after informed written patient consent and was approved by the Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics in West Norway (ref. 2011/1244/REK vest).
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