Fan, Yao
Zhang, Longshan
Sun, Yaling
Yang, Mi
Wang, Xiaoqing
Wu, Xixi
Huang, Weiqiang
Chen, Longhua
Pan, Suming
Guan, Jian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2017A030313486)
Guangzhou Science and Technology Program key projects (2018-1201-SF-0019)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81602685, 81672992)
Article History
Received: 27 November 2018
Revised: 22 January 2019
Accepted: 26 January 2019
First Online: 21 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Southern Medical University. All the participants provided their written informed consent to be included in the study. The animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the Southern Medical University and performed in accordance with the “Guidelines for Experimental Animals” of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Beijing, China). The 4-week-old male BALB/c mice were purchased from the Experimental Animal Center of Southern Medical University, license No.: SCXK (Guangdong) 2011-0015. The BALB/c mice need not to be grouped, and hence we did not have randomization or blind methods.