Ding, Xiang
Hao, Qiukui
Yang, Ming
Chen, Tie
Chen, Shanping
Yue, Jirong
Leng, Sean X.
Dong, Birong http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9795-174X
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (81100148)
he Science and Technology Department Project of Sichuan Province (2010SZ0181)
The Science and Technology Department Project of Sichuan Province (2014SZ0153)
Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (20100181110026)
The Ministry of Health for Public Welfare Fund (201302008)
National Institutes of Health (R01AI108907)
National Institutes of Health (R21-AG-043874)
Article History
Received: 27 April 2016
Accepted: 31 July 2017
First Online: 14 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures of the study were in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and were approved by the clinical trials and biomedical ethics committee of West China Hospital of Sichuan University. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants and their legal proxies for participation in the study.
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