Xie, Bo
Liu, Xinyu
Yang, Jie
Cheng, Jinke
Gu, Jianmin
Xue, Song http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6686-2242
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81670225)
Article History
Received: 29 May 2018
Accepted: 25 October 2018
First Online: 12 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All cardiac tissue specimens were obtained with informed consent from patients undergoing cardiac surgery in Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. This study conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. All animal procedures were performed in accordance with NIH guidelines (Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals) and the Use Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.