Chung, Sai-Fung
Kim, Chi-Fai
Tam, Suet-Ying
Choi, Man-Chung
So, Pui-Kin
Wong, Kwok-Yin
Leung, Yun-Chung
Lo, Wai-Hung
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (PolyU 5017/13P)
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1-BBAE, 1-ZE18 & 1-ZE21, 847E, 1-ZVH9)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2019
Revised: 11 February 2020
Accepted: 18 February 2020
First Online: 6 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All animal experiments were conducted with licenses issued by the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Government as stipulated by the Animals (control of experiments) ordinance (Cap. 340), under the approval no. 12/23 granted by the animal ethic sub-committee of the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong and following the institutional guidelines for care and use of animals. The normal BALB/c mice were obtained from the Central Animal Facilities (CAF) of the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.