This study was conducted according to the Portuguese National Regulative Law for the handling of biological specimens from tumor banks (waiving the need of specify approval for samples from a tumor archive and used in retrospective analysis) and complied with The Helsinki Declaration statement.
The music wasn't inflexibly hipper-than-thou either; fans shouted approval for samples from Kings of Leon, Black Eyed Peas and Lil Wayne that were soon surrounded in new electronics.
With the approval of patients, samples of synovial joint fluid were collected using a syringe and needle in our outpatient clinics by experienced orthopedic physicians.
The time delays in gaining approvals and permission through this governance process, excluding the CLRNs and NHS Trusts which did not respond at all, is summarised in Figure 2. The third concurrent phase of the process of attempting to secure approval to sample from medical records involved the recruitment of professional staff.
The institutional REC may grant provisional approval for transfer of samples pending the submission of both the MTA and provisional approval of the HREC to the NHREC who will acknowledge its receipt for record purposes only.
Ethical approval for use of samples from patients in this research was granted by the London Hampstead Research Ethics Committee Reference Number 12/LO/0373.
This project was approved by ethics committee of Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine for the use of samples, approval No. 2012031.
The Institutional Review Boards of the medical centers, which provided human islets (members of the Islet Cell Resource Consortium) and bone marrow, each provided approval for the collection of samples and subsequent analysis.
Relevant questions here concern the export of samples, approval of secondary use and the acceptability of commercialisation.
Ethical approval for the use of samples and data collection was granted by the local Research Ethics Committee.
Ethical approval for the collection of samples from patients had been granted by the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland Research Ethics Committee 1.
