Yoon, Jung Hwan
Ham, In-Hye
Kim, Olga
Ashktorab, Hassan
Smoot, Duane T.
Nam, Suk Woo
Lee, Jung Young
Hur, Hoon
Park, Won Sang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2015R1A2A2A01002531)
Korea Health Industry Development Institute (HI17C0364)
Article History
Received: 29 December 2017
Accepted: 19 April 2018
First Online: 27 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest. Dr. Park reports grants from The Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2015R1A2A2A01002531 to W.S.P), grants from The Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI17C0364 to H.H), during the conduct of the study; In addition, Dr. Park has a patent Diagnosis of gastric cancer using gastrokine 1 protein within blood pending, and a patent Anti-cancer composition including exosomal GKN1 protein pending.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent to be included in the study, or the equivalent, was obtained from all patients. For studies with animals, all institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.