Hu, Yunfeng
Xie, Qiu
Wu, Xiang
Liu, Weizhen
Li, DongFang
Li, Chen
Zhao, WangXing
Chen, LinLin
Zheng, Zihui
Li, GuangMing
Guo, Jun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8525-8267
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82073826)
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (19KJA320003)
Open Project of Chinese Materia Medica First-Class Discipline of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Article History
Received: 5 April 2022
Revised: 26 September 2022
Accepted: 27 September 2022
First Online: 8 October 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Animal studies were performed according to the institutional guidelines approved by Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine. BALB/c nude mice were obtained from the Institute of Comparative Medicine of Yangzhou University (Yangzhou, China) and maintained under specific pathogen-free conditions at Nanjing University of Chinese medicine. Fresh breast cancer tissue samples and adjacent normal tissues were obtained from the Xuzhou Central Hospital (Xuzhou, China). Informed consent was obtained from all patients and ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Human Research of the Xuzhou Central Hospital.