We followed the Helsinki Declaration, and all experiments in this study were conducted in accordance with a protocol approved by the Ethical Committee of our hospital.
This study was conducted in a university hospital medical ICU in accordance with a protocol that was approved by the local ethics committee.
All experiments using animals were performed in accordance with a protocol approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Xiamen University.
All of the experiments using animals were performed in accordance with a protocol approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Nanjing University.
The hot-line is operated in accordance with a protocol developed in collaboration with national education and law enforcement authorities, including the FBI.
Animal studies were performed in accordance with a protocol approved by the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center animal use committee.
Human neutrophils were isolated from heparinized venous blood of healthy donors in accordance with a protocol approved by the NIAID Institutional Review Board for human subjects.
Twenty-three mRP-fractions of 1.8 ml were collected, evaporated (Eppendorf Concentrator 5301) and subsequently diluted in 100 mM ammonium bicarbonate, denatured and digested by trypsin in accordance with a protocol provided by Agilent Technologies (www.chem.agilent.com; publication no.
Saliva samples were obtained from healthy volunteers from the Division of Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery, at the Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA in accordance with a protocol approved by the UCLA Institutional Review Board.
Prior to participation, written informed consent was provided in accordance with a protocol approved by our institutional human research ethics committee and in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.
The study was conducted in accordance with a protocol approved by the Spedali Civili of Brescia Institutional Ethical Board (Brescia, Italy) and the Board of the CTO Hospital (Turin, Italy); written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
