Liu, Dan
Fang, Yuxuan
Rao, Yujun
Tan, Wei
Zhou, Wei
Wu, Xia
Zhang, Chunwang
Zhang, Yu
Liu, Yanqing
Sunagawa, Masataka
Hisamitsu, Tadashi
Li, Guoqing http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-9228
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81302576 and No. 81402936)
Six Talent Peak Research Project in Jiangsu Province (No. 2015-WSN-105)
the 333 Project of Jiangsu Province
Jiangsu Province Youth Medical Talent Project (No. QNRC2016348)
Key Talents of Science and Education in Yangzhou City in 13th Five-Year (No. ZDRC201881)
Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. BK20131234)
Article History
Received: 1 September 2019
Revised: 2 January 2020
Accepted: 21 January 2020
First Online: 20 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was conducted with the approval of the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University. All participating patients signed written informed consent documentation prior to enrollment into the study. The animal experiment protocol was approved by the medical ethics committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University and strictly adhered to the <i>Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals</i> published by the National Institutes of Health to minimize the usage, suffering, and discomfort to experimental animals.