Lu, Juan
Liu, Qi-Hui
Wang, Fan
Tan, Jia-Jie
Deng, Yue-Qin
Peng, Xiao-Hong
Liu, Xiong
Zhang, Bao
Xu, Xia
Li, Xiang-Ping
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81301849)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81472535)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2014A030310032)
Article History
Received: 13 January 2018
Accepted: 26 June 2018
First Online: 13 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki principles. Informed consent was obtained from all individuals, and the research protocols were approved by the Ethics Committee of Nanfang Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University and the Animal Experimental Ethics Committee of Southern Medical University.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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