Funding for this research was provided by:
Health and Medical Research Fund (05163456)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2020
Accepted: 18 January 2021
First Online: 27 May 2021
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Queen Mary Hospital and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The patients provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.
: All the co-authors consent to publish the work in Cell Communication & Signaling.
: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.