Heparanase inhibition leads to improvement in patients with acute gastrointestinal injuries induced by sepsis
Ting-Ting Chen, Jia-Jun Lv, The First Clinical Medical School of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, China
Ling Chen, Min Li, Li-Ping Liu, Department of Emergency Critical Care Medicine, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, China
Author contributions: Chen TT collected the clinical data for data analysis and mapping and drafted the manuscript; Lv JJ collected the blood samples from the patients and performed the flow cytometry; Chen L collected blood from the patients and completed the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays; Li M screened the research subjects and carried out clinical interventions; Liu LP participated in the experimental design, supervised the experimental process and reviewed the experimental results; and all the authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by the Science and Technology Department of Gansu Province, No. 20JR5RA35; Science and Technology Project of Gansu Province, No. 22JR10KA009; Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Science and Technology Bureau of Chengguan District, Lanzhou, No. 2020RCCX0030; and Lanzhou Science and Technology Development Guiding Plan Project, No. 2019-ZD-37.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Clinical Research (drugs, devices) of The First Hospital of Lanzhou University.
Clinical trial registration statement: This study is registered at Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (
https://www.chictr.org.cn/). The registration identification number is ChiCTR2300072241.
Informed consent statement: All study participants or their legal guardians agreed to be enrolled in the study and provided consent (written or oral).
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: This study is registered at Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (
https://www.chictr.org.cn/), and the data is shared on this platform.
CONSORT 2010 statement: The authors have read the CONSORT 2010 Statement, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CONSORT 2010 Statement.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (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:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Li-Ping Liu, MD, PhD, Doctor, Department of Emergency Critical Care Medicine, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, No. 1 West Road, Donggang, Chengguan District, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, China.
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Received: July 5, 2023
Peer-review started: July 5, 2023
First decision: August 10, 2023
Revised: August 23, 2023
Accepted: September 5, 2023
Article in press: September 5, 2023
Published online: September 21, 2023
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