Jiang, Yu-Xin
Siu, Michelle Kwan-Yee
Wang, Jing-Jing
Mo, Xue-Tang
Leung, Thomas Ho-Yin
Chan, David Wai
Cheung, Annie Nga-Yin
Ngan, Hextan Yuen-Sheung
Chan, Karen Kar-Loen
Article History
Received: 2 May 2019
Revised: 27 January 2020
Accepted: 7 April 2020
First Online: 11 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Sample collection was under the approval of Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Hong Kong. Consented patients were informed of the use of their clinical information before sample collection. The authors confirm that they have obtained written consent from each patient to publish the manuscript. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Animal experiments were conducted following protocols approved by the Committee of the Use of Live Animals in Teaching and Research (CULATR) and were carried out under an approved CULATR licence (No. 4598-18).
: This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data.
: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The work was jointly funded by the University of Hong Kong (201711159248) and by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (HKU 17101414), and the Research Fund from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.