Liu, Qiuli
Chen, Xiaoyong
Liu, Chang
Pan, Lijie
Kang, Xinmei
Li, Yanli
Du, Cong
Dong, Shuai
Xiang, Andy Peng http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3409-5012
Xu, Yan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5653-291X
Zhang, Qi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9916-8919
Article History
Received: 29 September 2020
Revised: 19 January 2021
Accepted: 10 February 2021
First Online: 4 March 2021
Ethical approval
: Animal experiments in this study were conducted under ethical conditions approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Isolation and expansion of hUC-MSCs were approved by the Institutional Human Ethics Committee of The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.
: This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0106100, 2018YFA0107203, 2017YFA010550), National Natural Science Foundation of China (81601381, 81971526, 81670601, 81760112, 31601184, 81870449, 81970537, 81970109), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2020A1515010272, 2020A1515011385), Key project fund of Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (2017A030311034), Special fund for frontier and key technology innovation of Guangdong (2015B020226004) and National Keypoint Research and Invention program of the thirteenth (2018ZX10723203), the Key Scientific and Technological Projects of Guangdong Province (2019B020236004, 2019B020234001, 2019B020235002, 2017B020230004), Key Scientific and Technological Program of Guangzhou City (201803040011, 201802020023), Pearl River S&T Nova Program of Guangzhou (201906010095), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20ykpy149), and Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (A2018085).
: The authors declare no competing interests.