Hu, Fuqing
Li, Haijie
Liu, Lu
Xu, Feng
Lai, Senyan
Luo, Xuelai
Hu, Junbo
Yang, Xi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8774-9791
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Science and Technology of Hubei Province of China (No. 2016CFB136, No. 2016CFB550)
Article History
Received: 20 April 2018
Accepted: 23 July 2018
First Online: 30 July 2018
Change Date: 13 September 2018
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: After the publication of this work [1] an error was noticed in Fig. 7e, in which the incorrect information is shown. The updated figure included in this correction now shows the quantification of tumor microvessel density. This correction does not affect the findings or conclusions of the article. Nevertheless, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: GIST tissues were obtained from patients who underwent surgical resection at Tongji Hospital (Wuhan, China). Consent letters were obtained from patients before this study. All experiments were approved by the Ethics Committee of Tongji Hospital and conducted in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki).
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