Schumann, Sarah http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4303-7068
Eberlein, Uta
Müller, Jessica
Scherthan, Harry
Lassmann, Michael
Article History
Received: 17 April 2018
Accepted: 6 July 2018
First Online: 6 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The research plan was presented to the ethics committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg, Germany (Az: 165/14). The ethics committee approved the study by stating that there were no objections to the conduct of the study. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the ethics committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg and with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The blood was drawn in the Department of Nuclear Medicine of the University Hospital Würzburg by experienced institutional physicians. All samples were anonymized before further processing.
: All volunteers gave their consent to publish the data.
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