Funding for this research was provided by:
NIH-NCI (NIH-NCI: 7R01CA079716-10 (PI: Xu), 12/10/1998-11/30/2015)
Article History
Received: 21 May 2018
Accepted: 24 September 2018
First Online: 30 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: IRB approvals from Fox Chase Cancer Center and From the University of Miami were obtained for this study using archived tissues.
: Not applicable.
: No competing interest is to be reported by the authors. This study was carried out in laboratory of Dr. Callinice D. Capo-chichi in the university of Abomey Calavi (UAC) in Benin and in the laboratory of Dr. Xiang-Xi Xu in the University of Miami (UM) Miller Medical School in Miami, Florida, USA .
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