Wei Li, Yan-Hui Ji, Cheng-Xia Li, Zhong-Yun Liu, Ning Li, Lei Fang, Jin Chang, Jian Tan
Wei Li, Yan-Hui Ji, Cheng-Xia Li, Ning Li, Jian Tan, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China
Zhong-Yun Liu, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, Shandong Province, China
Lei Fang, Jin Chang, Institute of Nanobiotechnology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composites and Functional Materials, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Author contributions: Li W and Ji YH have contributed equally to this work, and they substantially contributed to the conception and design of the study and the acquisition of the data; Li CX, Liu ZY, Li N, Fang L, Chang J and Tan J analyzed and interpreted the data; Li W and Ji YH drafted the article, made critical revisions related to the intellectual content of the manuscript, and approved the final version of the article to be published.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81301244 (to Li W); and the National Key Clinical Specialty Project.
Institutional animal care and use committee statement: This study was performed in accordance with the guidelines of the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Tianjin Medical University.
Conflict-of-interest statement: To the best of our knowledge, no conflict of interest exists.
Data sharing statement: The technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset are available from the corresponding author at (tanpost@163.com). Participants gave informed consent for data sharing. The authors confirm that all data underlying the findings are fully available without restriction. All relevant data are mentioned in the paper. No additional data are available.
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Correspondence to: Jian Tan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Anshan Road 154, Heping District, Tianjin 300052, China. tanpost@163.com
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Received: August 28, 2015
Peer-review started: September 1, 2015
First decision: September 29, 2015
Revised: November 2, 2015
Accepted: January 17, 2016
Article in press: January 19, 2016
Published online: April 14, 2016
