He, Shiping
Yang, Feng
Yang, Mei
An, Weiwei
Maguire, Eithne Margaret
Chen, Qishan
Xiao, Rui
Wu, Wei
Zhang, Li
Wang, Wen
Xiao, Qingzhong http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9101-0498
Funding for this research was provided by:
British Heart Foundation (PG/15/11/31279, PG/15/86/31723 and PG/16/1/31892)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81930010, 81870206 and 81800248)
Article History
Received: 18 August 2020
Accepted: 21 October 2020
First Online: 3 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: For detecting the gene expression levels of miR-214-3p and Sufu in human aortic tissues, the existing materials (RNA) from previous studies were used in this study. All patients gave their written, informed consent prior to inclusion in the study. All procedures had local ethical approval (2013/150). All studies were approved by the Research Ethics Committees of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, China, and all experiments were conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki.All animal experiments were conducted according to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act of 1986 (UK). All the animal procedures were approved by Queen Mary University of London ethics review board (PPL number: PB508B78D) and conform to the guidelines from Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes or the NIH guidelines (guide for the care and use of laboratory animals).
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.