Ng, Kevin Tak-Pan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-1335
Yeung, Oscar Wai-Ho
Lam, Yin Fan
Liu, Jiang
Liu, Hui
Pang, Li
Yang, Xin Xiang
Zhu, Jiye
Zhang, Weiyi
Lau, Matthew Y. H.
Qiu, Wen Qi
Shiu, Hoi Chung
Lai, Man Kit
Lo, Chung Mau
Man, Kwan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (17101017, T12-703/19R, 17122517, 17159616)
HKU | University Research Committee, University of Hong Kong (201910159141, 201811159027, 201711159018, 201611159111)
Article History
Received: 3 January 2021
Revised: 10 June 2021
Accepted: 20 June 2021
First Online: 21 July 2021
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All clinical samples were obtained from patients with signed consent and the collection of the samples by the Surgical Tissue Bank was approved by the ethics committee of the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster (HKU/HA HKW IRB, Ref. UW 05-359 T/1022). The animal study was approved by the Committee on the Use of Live Animals in Teaching and Research, the University of Hong Kong (CULATR 3894-16).