Xie, Zhi-Bo
Zhang, Yi-Fan
Jin, Chen
Mao, Yi-Shen
Fu, De-Liang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81472221)
Clinical key projects of the National Health and Family Planning (Oncology 2013-2015)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2018
Accepted: 6 February 2019
First Online: 13 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University (Shanghai, China), and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and internationally accepted ethical guidelines. The use of human tissue samples and clinical data was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University. All donors provided written informed consent to donate their samples. All animal experiments were carried out according to the standards of animal care as outlined in the NIH guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. All methods were taken in accordance with the approved guidelines of Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
: The authors disclose no conflicts of interest.
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