Su, Liping
Kong, Xiaocen
Lim, Szeyun
Loo, Szejie
Tan, Shihua
Poh, Kiankeong
Dutton, James
Stewart, Colin
Cook, Stuart
Su, Xiaofei
Ma, Jianhua
Zhang, Jianyi
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Medical Research Council Singapore (CIRG/15may018)
National Medical Reseach Council Singapore (OFIRG/16may039)
GOH Research Fund (2014/0003)
Article History
Received: 11 September 2018
Revised: 22 October 2018
Accepted: 24 October 2018
First Online: 15 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The procedures were approved by the ethics committee of Nanjing Hospital, Nanjing, China, and the Centralised Institutional Review Board of Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd., Singapore. Informed consent forms were signed by all patients. The animal experimental protocol and maintenance procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and performed in accordance with the Animal Use Guidelines of Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd.
: All authors agreed for the publication.
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