Chen, Ya-Tzu
Tsai, May-Jywan
Hsieh, Nini
Lo, Ming-Jei
Lee, Meng-Jen
Cheng, Henrich
Huang, Wen-Cheng https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0605-5793
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan (V106C-110)
Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. (103-2314-B-075-033; 104-2314-B-075-014)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (107-2314-B-010-023)
Article History
Received: 8 May 2019
Revised: 6 October 2019
Accepted: 8 November 2019
First Online: 16 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The procedure for human sample collection followed the guidelines approved by our hospital’s ethics committee (Institutional Review Board IRB 2012-04-049B). All experimental procedures were carefully reviewed and approved by the animal studies subcommittee of Taipei Veterans Hospital (IACUC 2013-187).
: Not applicable
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.