Li, Haomin
Heng, Baoli https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3648-0053
Ouyang, Peng
Xie, Xuexia
Zhang, Tingshun
Chen, Guo
Chen, Zheng
Cheang, Kahong
Lai, Caiyong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Leading Specialist Construction Project-Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University (711006)
the National Key R&D Program of China (2016 YFC 1305700)
Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (A2019571)
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (11618303)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Yangjiang (33518008)
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (21618306)
Article History
Received: 26 December 2019
Accepted: 9 May 2020
First Online: 14 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All of the samples (clear cell renal carcinoma tissues and pair-matched adjacent normal tissues) were obtained with appropriate informed consent from the patients and were approved by the Ethical Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethical Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The animal studies were approved by the committee on animal experimentation of Jinan University. All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee on animal experimentation of Jinan University.