Fan, Chi-Shuan
Chen, Li-Li
Hsu, Tsu-An
Chen, Chia-Chi
Chua, Kee Voon
Li, Chung-Pin
Huang, Tze-Sing http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8736-4330
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health Research Institutes (CA-108-PP-13)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST106-2314-B-400-025-MY3)
Article History
Received: 2 August 2019
Accepted: 13 November 2019
First Online: 17 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Human PDAC tissues were taken from 12 patients who received surgery at Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taipei, Taiwan), and written informed consent was obtained from each patient according to the medical ethics protocol approved by the Human Clinical Trial Committee of Taipei Veterans General Hospital. HUVECs were isolated from umbilical cords of normal deliveries upon approval by the Human Clinical Trial Committee of Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Additionally, all mouse experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of National Health Research Institutes.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.