Liu, Li-Zhong http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4751-1679
Wang, Menghuan
Xin, Qihang
Wang, Bowen
Chen, George G.
Li, Ming-Yue
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81570784, 81472742)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen Municipality (JCYJ20150324141711688)
Chinese University of Hong Kong (2015.1.086, 2017.081)
Article History
Received: 18 November 2019
Accepted: 1 February 2020
First Online: 11 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was performed in accordance with the ethical principles and guidelines for human research of the Helsinki Declaration, and human ethics Approval (2014.649 and 2015.729) was obtained from the joint Chinese University of Hong Kong-New Territories East Cluster Clinical Research Governance and Management Committee. An informed consent for human tissues for research purposes only was obtained from all patients recruited. All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with the Animals (Control of Experiments) Ordinance Chapter 340, and approved by the Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee of CUHK.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.