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Expression of pyruvate dehydrogenase is an independent prognostic marker in gastric cancer
Xu-Ren Sun, Zhe Sun, Zhi Zhu, Hai-Xia Guan, Chen-Yan Li, Jun-Yan Zhang, Yi-Ning Zhang, Huan Zhou, Hui-Jing Zhang, Hui-Mian Xu, Ming-Jun Sun
Xu-Ren Sun, Yi-Ning Zhang, Ming-Jun Sun, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
Zhe Sun, Zhi Zhu, Jun-Yan Zhang, Hui-Mian Xu, Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
Hai-Xia Guan, Chen-Yan Li, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
Huan Zhou, Hui-Jing Zhang, Ming-Jun Sun, Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
Author contributions: Sun MJ, Xu HM designed the research; Sun XR, Sun Z, Zhu Z, Zhang YN performed the research; Guan HX, Li CY contributed new reagents and analytic tools; Sun XR, Zhang HJ, Zhou H and Zhu Z analyzed the data; Sun XR, Zhang JY, Sun Z and Zhu Z wrote the paper.
Supported by Grants from the research projects in Liaoning Province Science and Technology Department, No. 2007225017, No. 2009225011-2 and No. 2011415052; Science and Technology projects in Shenyang City, No. F11-264-1-19.
Ethics approval: The study was reviewed and approved by the Research Ethics Committee of China Medical University.
Informed consent: All study participants or their legal guardians provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest: All of the authors have no conflicts of interest.
Data sharing: No additional data are available
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Ming-Jun Sun, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155 North Nanjing Street, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China. smjmw@sina.com
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Received: October 14, 2014
Peer-review started: October 15, 2014
First decision: December 11, 2014
Revised: December 30, 2014
Accepted: February 12, 2015
Article in press: February 13, 2015
Published online: May 7, 2015
