Xu, Huanfang
Zhao, Hong
Kang, Liping
Huang, Shixi
Shi, Yin
Su, Wei
Han, Mingjuan
Wang, Wenyan
Wang, Chunyan
Zhang, Yuan
Guo, Lanping
Funding for this research was provided by:
program of “the National Basic Research Program of China by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2015CB554506)
Article History
Received: 25 April 2017
Accepted: 7 July 2018
First Online: 27 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This protocol has been approved by the ethics committee of each participating hospital: the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS), the Guang’anmen Hospital CACMS, the Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, and the Beijing First Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. Written informed consent will be obtained from each patient prior to enrolment.
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