Yan Ren, Mei Liu, Jing Zhao, Feng Ren, Yu Chen, Jun-Feng Li, Jing-Yun Zhang, Feng Qu, Jin-Lan Zhang, Zhong-Ping Duan, Su-Jun Zheng
Yan Ren, Mei Liu, Jing Zhao, Yu Chen, Jun-Feng Li, Jing-Yun Zhang, Zhong-Ping Duan, Su-Jun Zheng, Artificial Liver Center, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
Feng Ren, Institute of Liver Diseases, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
Feng Qu, Jin-Lan Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China
Author contributions: Ren Y and Liu M contributed equally; Ren Y and Liu M designed the study and wrote the manuscript; Zhao J, Ren F and Zhang JY collected all the human materials; Qu F and Ren Y performed the majority of experiments; Zhang JL and Chen Y designed the study; Ren Y and Li JF analyzed the data; Duan ZP and Zheng SJ designed the study and revised the manuscript.
Supported by Grants from High technical personnel training item from Beijing Health System, No. 2011-3-083, No. 2013-3-071; Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z131107002213019, No. Z151100004015066; Base to Clinical Scientific Research Cooperation fund of Capital Medical University No. 15JL67; National Science and Technology Key Project on “Major Infectious Diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis Prevention and Treatment”, No. 2012ZX10002004-006, No. 2012ZX10004904-003-001, and No. 2013ZX10002002-006; Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Clinical medicine Development of special funding support, No. XM201308; National Key Subject Construction Project, NO. WJWYA-2014-002; and Scientific research base construction - the major infectious diseases prevention and control of collaborative innovation center, No. 115215.
Institutional review board statement: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University.
Informed consent statement: All patients gave informed consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Correspondence to: Su-Jun Zheng, PhD, MD, Artificial Liver Center, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 8 Xitou Tiao Road, Youwai Street, Beijing 100069, China.
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Received: April 18, 2015
Peer-review started: April 20, 2015
First decision: June 19, 2015
Revised: July 2, 2015
Accepted: September 2, 2015
Article in press: September 2, 2015
Published online: October 21, 2015
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