Zhang, Yulin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0031-1808
Kong, Yang
Ma, Yuan
Ni, Shilei
Wikerholmen, Tobias http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2925-6144
Xi, Kaiyan
Zhao, Feihu
Zhao, Zhimin
Wang, Junpeng
Huang, Bin
Chen, Anjing
Yao, Zhong
Han, Mingzhi
Feng, Zichao
Hu, Yaotian
Thorsen, Frits http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-3703
Wang, Jian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9482-5227
Li, Xingang http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0878-0211
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province (2018CXGC1503, 2018GSF118094, 2017CXGC1502)
Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province (ts20110814)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81874082, 81702474, 82073219, 81972351)
Jinan Science and Technology Bureau (201821049, 2019GXRC006)
Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province (tsqn201909173, tshw201502056)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M642666)
Jinan Science and Technology Bureau
Article History
Received: 16 June 2020
Revised: 25 November 2020
Accepted: 11 December 2020
First Online: 8 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All experiments performed with human samples were approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Shandong University (Shandong, China). Human glioma (WHO grades II-IV, <i>n</i> = 60) and non-neoplastic brain tissue samples (<i>n</i> = 6) were obtained from surgeries performed in the Department of Neurosurgery at Qilu Hospital (Shandong, China). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. All animal procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Shandong University.