From the ∗Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
†The Second Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hainan Provincial People's Hospital, Haikou, China.
Received for publication September 16, 2021; accepted August 8, 2022.
Address correspondence to: Jin-Fang Zheng, MD, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Hainan Provincial People's Hospital, No. 19, Xiuhua Road, Xiuying District, Haikou 570311, Hainan Province, China (e-mail: [email protected]).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
K.-Q.W. and M.-L.Y. are cofirst authors.
This work was supported by the Funding for High-level Talents Project in Basic and Applied Basic Research Plan (in the Field of Natural Sciences) of Hainan Province in 2019 (no. 2019RC373).
This study was approved by the ethics review committees of the Hainan Provincial People's Hospital. Informed consent was provided by all patients. All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Hainan Provincial People's Hospital.
The informed consent was obtained from study participants.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this article. The data sets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
K.-Q.W. did the conception and study design. M.-L.Y. did the data acquisition. X.Q. and Z.-W.Y. did the data analysis. J.-F.Z. did the funding acquisition. K.-Q.W., J.-F.Z., and C.-X.W. did the manuscript drafting. K.-Q.W. and J.-F.Z. did the manuscript revising.
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