Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81401933)
Nurture Projects for Basic Research of Shanghai Chest Hospital
Article History
Received: 1 November 2020
Revised: 3 August 2021
Accepted: 16 September 2021
First Online: 1 December 2021
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All experiments were approved by the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Chest Hospital in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Patients provided written informed consent and the study procedures were fully explained before study inclusion.