He, Tingting
Wang, Mengzhe
Wang, Hui
Tan, Hongpei
Tang, Yongxiang
Smith, Eric
Wu, Zhanhong
Liao, Weihua
Hu, Shuo
Li, Zibo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1063-0298
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81471689, 91859207, and 81771873)
University of North Carolina
Article History
Received: 12 December 2018
Accepted: 1 May 2019
First Online: 1 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants and tissue samples 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 protocol was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of Xiangya Hospital, Central South University. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of UNC-CH, and the protocol was approved by the UNC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.