Kung, Pin-Jui
Lai, Ting-Yu
Cao, Jerry
Hsu, Li-Chung
Chiang, Tsai-Chen
Ou-Yang, Pu
Tsai, Ching-Yi
Tsai, Yi-Fen
Lin, Chih-Wen
Chen, Chien-Chia
Tsai, Meng-Kun
Tien, Yu-Wen
Lee, Chih-Yuan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-3544
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (109-2314-B-002-080, 109-2326-B002-003)
Article History
Received: 15 November 2020
Accepted: 29 July 2021
First Online: 10 August 2021
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing financial interests. All the co-authors have read the manuscript and approved its submission.
: The datasets and materials used during the current study are available from the corresponding author on request. The publicly available microarray datasets GSE36775 and GSE9350 were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (ExternalRef removed).
: We retrospectively collected specimens for immunofluorescence staining from 22 patients with PDAC varying from stage IIa to stage IV who received operative intervention at National Taiwan University Hospital between 2001 and 2008. The study was approved by the institutional review boards (201705130RINC). All patients provided written informed consent.