Zhang, Shuhua
Zhang, Fan
Chen, Qing
Wan, Chidan
Xiong, Jun
Xu, Jianqun
Article History
Received: 8 July 2019
Accepted: 21 October 2019
First Online: 14 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to the study. Study protocols were approved by Ethic Committee of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and based on the ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects of the Helsinki Declaration. Animal experiments were conducted in strict accordance with the Guide to the Management and Use of Laboratory Animals issued by the National Institutes of Health. The protocol of animal experiments was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.