Maturity of associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy-derived liver regeneration in a rat model
Yi-Fan Tong, Ning Meng, Miao-Qin Chen, Han-Ning Ying, Ming Xu, Billy Lu, Jun-Jie Hong, Yi-Fan Wang, Xiu-Jun Cai
Yi-Fan Tong, Ning Meng, Han-Ning Ying, Ming Xu, Jun-Jie Hong, Yi-Fan Wang, Xiu-Jun Cai, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
Ning Meng, Department of General Surgery, Second Hospital, School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
Miao-Qin Chen, Department of Biological Treatment Research Center, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
Billy Lu, National Center for Advancing Translational Science/National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rickville 20850, American Samoa
Author contributions: Tong YF, Meng N, Chen MQ, Ying HN and Xu M contributed equally to this work; Cai XJ, Wang YF and Tong YF designed research; Tong YF, Chen MQ and Xu M performed research; Meng N and Ying HN contributed new reagents or analytic tools; Tong YF and Chen MQ analyzed data; Tong YF and Meng N wrote the paper; Lu B, Hong JJ and Cai XJ revised and supervised the study and revised the paper; all authors have read and approved the final version to be published.
Supported by the Major Scientific and Technological Project of Zhejiang Province, China, No. 2015C03026.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethical Committees for Human Subjects at Zhejiang University, China, Institutional Review Board.
Institutional animal care and use committee statement: All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with policies of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China. Specific protocols used in this study were approved by School of Medicine, Zhejiang University IACUC.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declared no conflicts of interest was included in the study.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at srrsh_cxj@zju.edu.cn. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
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Correspondence to: Xiu-Jun Cai, FRSC, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun East Road No.3, Hangzhou 310016, Zhejiang Province, China.
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Received: December 28, 2017
Peer-review started: December 29, 2017
First decision: January 17, 2018
Revised: February 4, 2018
Accepted: February 9, 2018
Article in press: February 9, 2018
Published online: March 14, 2018
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