Yu, Junhui
Li, Shan
Xu, Zhengshui
Guo, Jing
Li, Xiaopeng
Wu, Yunhua
Zheng, Jianbao
Sun, Xuejun http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-5551
Article History
Received: 14 July 2020
Revised: 21 August 2020
Accepted: 15 October 2020
First Online: 26 November 2020
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 of The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University. 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 surgery. Our study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University.
: 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 work was funded by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Serial Numbers: 81972720, 81101874 and 81172362), the Coordinative and Innovative Plan Projects of the Science and Technology Program in Shaanxi Province (Grant serial number: 2013KTCQ03-08), the Science and Technology Project of Shaanxi Province (Grant serial number: 2016SF-015 and 2019SF-065) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant serial number: xjj2018123).