Wu, Liang http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9367-7368
Zhou, Zili
Han, Shengbo
Chen, Jinhuang
Liu, Zhengyi
Zhang, Xudan
Yuan, Wenzheng
Ji, Jintong
Shu, Xiaogang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81772581, 81271199)
Article History
Received: 12 May 2019
Revised: 11 October 2019
Accepted: 22 November 2019
First Online: 12 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All animal experiments in our study were carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, and approved by the Ethics Committee Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (S-082/2019). Patients were informed that the resected specimens were stored by the hospital and potentially used for scientific research, and that their privacy would be maintained. All patients provided informed consent prior to undergoing screening procedures. Our study protocol (S-082/2019) was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant numbers: 81271199 and 81772581).