Li, Hongdan
Li, Feng
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) (31571457)
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (MOE) (IRT13101)
Foundation of China and Basic Research Project of Education Department of Liaoning Province (LZ2015071)
Article History
Received: 17 June 2018
Revised: 3 August 2018
Accepted: 16 August 2018
First Online: 17 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in compliance with the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki. All the experimental procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the China Medical University (IACUC Issue No.14061) in accordance with guidelines set forth by the university for animal research. The final protocol and amendments were reviewed and approved by the independent ethics committee of the China Medical University. All patients provided informed consent prior to undergoing screening procedures.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The datasets used and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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