Bucar, Sara
Branco, André Dargen de Matos
Mata, Márcia F.
Milhano, João Coutinho
Caramalho, Íris
Cabral, Joaquim M. S.
Fernandes-Platzgummer, Ana
da Silva, Cláudia L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1091-7651
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/128379/2017, SFRH/BD/132665/2017)
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (UIDB/04565/2020)
MSCellProduction (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-038313)
Article History
Received: 17 March 2021
Accepted: 24 June 2021
First Online: 13 July 2021
Declarations
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: Human samples were obtained from local hospitals (UCB and tissue: Hospital São Francisco Xavier, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental; BM: Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil, Lisboa; AT: Clínica de Todos-os-Santos, Lisboa) under collaboration agreements with Institute for iBB-IST, after written and informed consent and according to the Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 regarding standards of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage, and distribution of human tissues and cells (Portuguese Law 22/2007). All samples used in this study were obtained from human donors (the mothers, in the case of UCB and tissue) that have previously tested negative for common virus and diseases.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.