Wei, Song
Liu, Wenwen
Xu, Mingxin
Qin, Huamin
Liu, Chang
Zhang, Rui
Zhou, Sihai
Li, Encheng http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2874-5691
Liu, Zhiyu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6024-7836
Wang, Qi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2427-7234
Article History
Received: 14 March 2021
Revised: 14 January 2022
Accepted: 3 February 2022
First Online: 25 February 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The local ethics committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University approved the usage of the biological materials and data in this study. Reference number for approval was 2019046. All animal experimental procedures were following the guidelines provided by the Animal Health Protection Act and the Instructions for Granting Permits for Animal Experimentation for Scientific Purposes in addition to being approved by the Dalian Medical University Licensing Committee. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study. Written informed consent has been obtained from the patients to publish this paper.