Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health R01 grant (AR049439–01A1)
Research Grants Council Earmarked Grant CUHK (4101/02 M)
Article History
Received: 5 July 2017
Accepted: 13 October 2017
First Online: 24 October 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None.
: All procedures performed in the studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.