Huang, Wen-Chien
Kuo, Kuang-Tai
Wang, Chun-Hua
Yeh, Chi-Tai https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5189-9755
Wang, Yongjie
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Council (MOST-105-MY2-18-2215)
Article History
Received: 7 November 2018
Accepted: 2 April 2019
First Online: 29 April 2019
Competing interest
: The authors declare that they have no potential financial competing interests that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of this manuscript at present or in the future. Additionally, no non-financial competing interests are involved in the manuscript.
: Clinical samples were collected from MacKay Memorial Hospital (Taipei City, Taiwan). All enrolled patients gave written informed consent for their tissues to be used for scientific research. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the MacKay Memorial Hospital, consistent with the recommendations of the declaration of Helsinki for biomedical research (MacKay Memorial HospitalĀ Approval Number: 20160600011 16MMHIS073e) and followed standard institutional protocol for human research. Moreover, the animal study protocol was approved by the Animal Care and User Committee at MacKay Memorial Hospital (Affidavit of Approval of Animal Use Protocol # MMH-104-024).
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