Zhao, Xinyue
Ge, Haijun
Xu, Wenshuai
Cheng, Chongsheng
Zhou, Wangji
Xu, Yan
Fan, Junping
Liu, Yaping
Tian, Xinlun
Xu, Kai-Feng
Zhang, Xue
Article History
Received: 23 September 2022
Accepted: 6 March 2023
First Online: 19 September 2023
Compliance with ethics guidelines
: <b>Conflicts of interest</b> Xinyue Zhao, Haijun Ge, Wenshuai Xu, Chongsheng Cheng, Wangji Zhou, Yan Xu, Junping Fan, Yaping Liu, and Xinlun Tian declare that they have no conflict of interest. Kai-Feng Xu and Xue Zhang are members of the Editorial Board of <i>Frontiers of Medicine</i>, who were excluded from the peer-review process and all editorial decisions related to the acceptance and publication of this article. Peer-review was handled independently by the other editors to minimise bias.
: The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 <i>Declaration of Helsinki</i> and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, and it was approved by the Institutional Review Board committee at PUMCH. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.