Human placental tissues were obtained from healthy delivering women in accordance with the Austrian Hospital Act (KAG 1982) after written informed consent and the study was approved by the Ethic Commission of Lower Austria (GSl-EK-4/3122015). Amnion-derived MSCs from placental tissue were isolated and characterized with CD73-APC, CD90-FITC and CD105-PE-Cy7 (all from eBioscience, San Diego, CA) by flow cytometry (CytoFLEX XL, Beckman Coulter GmbH, Krefeld, Germany) as described previously [21 (link)] and HUVECs were isolated from the umbilical vein and characterized as published previously [24 (link)].
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