Pudasaini, Bigyan
Yang, Guo-ling
Yang, Chen
Guo, Jian
Yuan, Ping
Wen-lan, Yang
Zhang, Rui
Wang, Lan
Zhao, Qin-Hua
Gong, Su-Gang
Jiang, Rong
Chen, Tian-Xiang
Wei, Xiong
Liu, Jin-Ming http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8225-7405
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (16ZR1429000)
National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, Medical and Health Science Technology Development Research Center (W2015RNA09B)
Article History
Received: 5 May 2017
Accepted: 26 February 2018
First Online: 23 March 2018
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