Shang, Yuru
Zhang, Xianbin
Lu, Lili
Jiang, Ke
Krohn, Mathias
Matschos, Stephanie
Mullins, Christina Susanne
Vollmar, Brigitte
Zechner, Dietmar
Gong, Peng
Linnebacher, Michael http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8054-1402
Article History
Received: 10 July 2020
Revised: 4 December 2020
Accepted: 5 January 2021
First Online: 9 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All patients signed the written informed consent and the procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of Rostock (reference numbers II HV 43/2004 and A 45/2007).
: Not applicable.
: The data and materials are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Yuru Shang, Xianbin Zhang and Lili Lu were supported by the China Scholarship Council (grant number: 201708080032 to YS, 201608080195 to XZ and 201908080127 to LL). Michael Linnebacher received a grant (number TBI-V-1-241-VBW-084) from the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.