Hung, Pei-Fang
Hong, Tse-Ming
Chang, Che-Chang
Hung, Chung-Lieh
Hsu, Yuan-Ling
Chang, Yih-Leong
Wu, Chen-Tu
Chang, Gee-Chen
Chan, Nei-Li
Yu, Sung-Liang
Yang, Pan-Chyr
Pan, Szu-Hua
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (NSC 102-2314-B-002-046-MY3, MOST 105-2628-B-002-007-MY3, MOST 106-0210-01-15-02, MOST 107-0210-01-19-01)
National Taiwan University (NTU-CDP-103R7879, NTU-CDP-104R7879)
Article History
Received: 16 September 2018
Accepted: 5 December 2018
First Online: 6 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The human tissues experiments were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TVGH, Taichung, Taiwan) and National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH, Taipei, Taiwan). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. All mouse experiments were performed in accordance with the animal care guidelines and with approval of the Laboratory Animal Center, National Taiwan University College of Medicine (Taipei, Taiwan).
: All authors have reviewed the manuscript and given consent for publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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