International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology

Editor-in-Chief:
Dennis W. Dickson, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL
E-mail: Dickson.Dennis@Mayo.edu

Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Shiyong Li, MD, PhD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
E-mail: sli2@emory.edu

Founding Editorial Board

Senior Editorial Board

Associate Editorial Board

Executive Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
E-mail: ciacobu@jhmi.edu

Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Dengshun Wang, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
E-mail: dwang6@wisc.edu

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Pathology --- IJCEP: ISSN 1936-2625

Editorial Board (In alphabetical order) Editorial Board Policies

Geza Acs, MD, PhD, University of South Florida

Abbas Agaimy, MD, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany

Khawla S. Al-Kuraya, MD, King Faisal Specialist Hospital

Charles Alpers, MD, University of Washington, Seattle

Gianfranco D Alpini, PhD, Texas A&M Health Science Center

Mahul B. Amin, MD, University of California, Los Angeles

Robert A. Anders, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Sophia Apple, MD, University of California at Los Angeles

James B. Atkinson, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Xue-Feng Bai, MD, PhD, Ohio State University Columbus

Margit Balazs PhD, DSc, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Sanford H Barsky, MD, PhD, Ohio State University

Sujit Basu, MD, PhD, Ohio State University at Columbus

Rohit Bhargava, MD, University of Pittsburgh

Boon Huat Bay , MD, PhD, National University of Singapore

Eirikur Benedikz, PhD, Karolinska Institute

Patricia E. Berg, PhD, George Washington University

Govind Bhagat, MD, Columbia University in New York

Raymond E. Boissy, PhD, University of Cincinnati

Judith V.M.G. Bovee, MD, PhD, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Joseph J. Boyle, PhD, Imperial College London, UK

Julia A. Bridge, MD, University of Nebraska

Robert E. Brown, MD, University of Texas, Houston

Janet M. Bruner, MD, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

David Budd, PhD, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. NJ, USA

Marilyn M. Bui, MD, PhD, University of South Florida

Dean J Burkin, PhD, University of Nevada

Jun Cai, MD, PhD, University of Louisville

Lu Cai, MD, PhD, University of Louisville

Dengfeng Cao, MD, PhD, Washington University at St Louis

Justin M.M. Cates, MD , PhD, Vanderbilt University

Michael Chan, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, China

Runjan Chetty, MD, PhD, University of Toronto

Annie N. Cheung, MD, University of Hong Kong, China

Yong Mee Cho, MD, PhD, University of Ulsan, Korea

Yong Sung Choi, MD, PhD, Tulane University

Kuan-Chih Chow, PhD, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan　　

Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Shih-Sung Chuang, MD, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Taiwan

Andrew M. Churg, MD, University of British Columbia, Canada

Luis Colomo, MD, University of Barcelona, Spain

Mark R. Cookson, PhD, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

James M. Crawford, MD, PhD, University of Florida

Bogdan A. Czerniak, MD, PhD, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Soheil Dadras, MD , PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center

Brett Delahunt, MD, University of Otago, New Zealand

Arun .M. Dharmarajan, PhD, The University of Western Australia

Chad A. Dickey, PhD, University of South Florida

Yoh Dobashi, MD, PhD, Jichi Medical University, Japan

Zheng Dong, PhD, Medical College of Georgia

Jeremy S. Duffield, MD, PhD, University of Washington-Seattle

George L. Eliceiri, MD, PhD, Saint Louis University

Oluwole Fadare, MD, University of Texas HSC at San Antonio

Raymond E. Felgar, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Wenke Feng, PhD, University of Louisville

Xu Feng, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Markus H. Frank, MD, Harvard Medical School

Philippe G. Frank, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University

Andreas Friedl, MD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael Fritsch, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Masashi Fukayama, MD, PhD , University of Tokyo, Japan

Ken-ichiro Fukuchi, MD, PhD, University of Illinois at Peoria

Kar-Ming Fung, MD, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Jian-Xin Gao, MD, PhD, Ohio State University Columbus

Pedram Gerami, MD, Northwestern University

John Goldblum, MD, Cleveland Clinic

Paula Grammas, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Georges E Grau, MD, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia

Lea T. Grinberg, MD, University of California at San Francisco

Qing Guo, MD, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Prabodh K. Gupta, MD, University of Pennsylvania

G. Kenneth Haines, MD, Yale University

Ardeshir Hakam, MD, University of South Florida

Omar Hameed, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Arndt Hartmann, MD, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany

Anwar Ul Haque, MD, Pakistan Institute of Med Sciences

John Hardy, PhD, University College London, UK

Michael N. Hart, MD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Elizabeth Head, PhD, University of California, Irvine

Richard G. Hegele, MD, PhD, University of British Columbia

Claus Hellerbrand, MD, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany

Peter Hersey, MD, University of Newcastle, Australia

Jay L. Hess MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Craig Horbinski, MD, PhD, University of Kentucky

Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Wei Huang, MD, MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Xudong Huang, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Pei Hui, MD, PhD, Yale University

Matthew T. Hurford, MD, Temple University

Kenneth A. Iczkowski, MD, University of Colorado-Aurora

Yuichi Ishikawa, MD, PhD, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Andrei I. Ivanov, PhD, University of Rochester

Nobuhisa Iwata, PhD, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

Sharon H. Jackson, MD, National Institutes of Health

Dhanpat Jain, MD, Yale University

Paul Jedlicka, MD, PhD, University of Colorado-Aurora

Peter E. Jensen, MD, University of Utah

Mathias Jucker, PhD, University of Tübingen, Germany

Kenji Kabashima, MD, Kyoto University, Japan

Sanjay Kakar, MD, University of California at San Francisco

Bzoena Kaminska, PhD, Warsaw Medical University, Poland

Yae Kanai, MD, PhD, National Cancer Center, Japan

Hiromi Kataoka, MD, PhD, Nagoya City University, Japan

Masashi Kato, MD, PhD, Chubu University, Japan

Paraic A. Kenny, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Kiarash Khosrotehrani, MD , PhD, University of Queensland, Australia

Thaer Khoury, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute/SUNY Buffalo

Annette S. Kim, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Kyoung Mee Kim, MD, PhD, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Hitoshi Kitamura, MD, PhD, Yokohama City University, Japan

Daniel M. Knowles, MD, Cornell University

Francisco G. La Rosa, MD, University of Colorado-Denver

Raymond Lai, MD, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada

Amanda C. LaRue, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina

Hyoung-gon Lee, PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Peng Lee, MD, PhD, New York University

Sug Hyung Lee, MD, PhD, The Catholic University of Korea

Chi Li, PhD, University of Louisville

Da-Jin Li PhD, MD, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Lingjun Li, PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Willis X. Li, PhD, University of Rochester

Yong Li MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

John J. Liang, MD, Penn State University

Sung-Chul Lim, MD, PhD, Chosun University, Korea

Bolin Liu, MD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

Chen Liu, MD, PhD, University of Florida

Youhua Liu, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Virginia A. LiVolsi, MD , University of Pennsylvania

Dolores López-Terrada, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Hinh Ly, PhD, Emory University

James S. Malter, MD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

David Charles Mangham, MD, University of Birmingham, UK

Daniela Massi, MD, University of Florence, Itlay

Xavier Matias-Guiu Guia , MD, University of Lleida, Spain

Michal Michal, MD, Charles University, Czech Republic

Satdarshan P. Singh Monga, MD, University of Pittsburgh

Andre L. Moreira, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Carlos S. Moreno, PhD, Emory University

Brooke T. Mossman, PhD, University of Vermont

Cynthia C. Morton, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Takahiko Nakagawa, MD, PhD, University of Colorado Denver

Mitsuyoshi Nakao MD, PhD, Kumamoto University, Japan

Yasodha Natkunam, MD, PhD, Stanford University

George J. Netto, MD, Johns Hopkins University

Marja T. Nevalainen, MD, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University

Ho-keung NG, MD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Daisuke Nonaka, MD, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Koji Okudela, MD, PhD, Yokohama City University, Japan

Sonia M. Oliani, PhD, São Paulo State University, Brazil

Michal A. Olszewski, DVM, PhD, University of Michigan

Adeboye O. Osunkoya, MD, Emory University

Toru Ouchi, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Tim Oury, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Scott R. Owens, MD, University of Michigan

Tristram G. Parslow, MD, PhD, Emory University

Bruce R. Pawel, MD, University of Pennsylvania

Roberto A. Perego, MD, Milano-Bicocca University, Italy

Giuseppe Perrone, MD, PhD, Campus Bio-Medico Universitry, Italy

George Perry, PhD , University of Texas, San Antonio

Mu-Ming POO, PhD, University of California-Berkeley

Venuprasad K. Poojary, PhD, Wayne State University

Celeste N. Powers, MD, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Zhirong Qian MD, PhD, University of Tokushima, Japan

Cedric S. Raine, PhD , D Sc, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Giuliano Ramadori, MD, Georg-August University of Medicine, Germany

Asif Rashid, MD, PhD, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Victor E. Reuter, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Michael Robson, PhD, King’s College London, UK

Scott J. Rodig, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Medical School

Fausto J. Rodriguez, MD, Johns Hopkins University

Jaime Rodriguez-Canales, MD, National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Troy Rohn, PhD, Boise State University, Idaho

Amyn Rojiani, MD, Medical College of Georgia

José Javier Gómez Román, MD, PhD, University of Cantabria, Spain

Alexander R. Rosenkranz, MD, Medical University of Graz, Austria

Carlos A. Rubio, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institute

Philippe J. Sansonetti, MD, Institut Pasteur, France

Gerry Shaw, PhD, McKnight Brain Institute, UF

Steven Shen, MD, PhD, Cornell University

Jinru Shia, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Ie-Ming Shih, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Yasuhiro Suzuki, PhD, University of Kentucky

Sandra Jean Shin, MD, Cornell University

Tahseen I Al-Saleem, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Jens Schittenhelm, MD, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Julie Schneider, MD, Rush Medical University, Chicago

Arnold M. Schwartz, MD, PhD, The George Washington University

Momin T Siddiqui, MD, Emory University

John H. Sinard, MD, PhD, Yale University

Ylermi Soini, MD, PhD, University of Eastern Finland

Ernst-Jan Speel, PhD, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Steven L. Spitalnik, MD, Columbia University in New York

Jun Sun, PhD, University of Rochester

Tamotsu Takeuchi, MD, Kochi Medical School, Japan

Dongfeng Tan, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jun Tan, MD, PhD, University of South Florida

Weihong Tan, PhD, University of Florida

Yao Tang, MD, University of Maryland

Mauro Martins Teixeira, MD, PhD, Universidade Federal de Minas, Brazil

Khin Thway, MD, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Carlos A. Torres-Cabala, MD, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Alexandar Tzankov, M D, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Francisco Vega, MD, PhD, M.D., Anderson Cancer Center

Toshifumi Wakai, MD, PhD, Niigata University, Japan

Beverly Y. Wang, MD, New York University

Chiayeng Wang, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Cong-Yi Wang, MD, Medical College of Georgia

Endi Wang, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center

Guanghua Wang, MD, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Hanlin Wang, MD, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-UCLA

Huan-You Wang, MD, PhD, University of California, San Diego

Li Wang, PhD, University of Utah

Michael X. Wang, MD, PhD, University of Missouri

Ping Wang, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Sa A. Wang, MD, University of Massachusetts

Xin Wang, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Nicole Ward, PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Mariusz A. Wasik, MD, University of Pennsylvania

Jian-Jun Wei, MD, Northwestern University

Britta Weigelt, PhD, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, UK

Sharon W Weiss, MD, Emory University

Alan Wells, MD , DMSc, University of Pittsburgh

Jelle Wesseling, MD. PhD, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands

Cara J. Westmark, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Micha M.M. Wilhelmus, PhD, VU University, The Netherlands

Sam Wiseman, MD, University of British Columbia, Canada

Janusz Witowski, PhD, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Peter Wolf, MD, Medical University of Graz, Austria

Kwong K. Wong, PhD, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Chin-Lee Wu, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Yun Wu, MD, PhD, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Shu-Yuan Xiao, MD , University of Chicago

Zhonglin Xie, MD, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Haodong Xu, MD, PhD, University of Rochester

Ruliang Xu, MD, PhD, New York University

Xiaowei Xu, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Riqiang Yan, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Bin Yang, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic

Chuen-Mao Yang, PhD, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

Guang-Yu Yang, MD, PhD, Northwestern University

Lijun Yang, MD, University of Florida

Ximing Yang, MD, PhD, Northwestern University

Ikuru Yazawa, MD, PhD, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Japan

Huihui Ye, MD, Harvard Medical School

Yao-Tsung Yeh, PhD, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan

Manuel Yepes, MD, Emory University

Ken H. Young, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pampee P. Young, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Yanlin Yu, PhD, National Cancer Institute

Constance M. Yuan, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Dani S. Zander, MD, Penn State University

Jianzhong Zhang, MD, PhD, Beijing, China

Jing Zhang, MD, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle

Lizhi Zhang, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Shengle Zhang, MD, PhD, SUNY-Syracuse

Wenzheng Zhang, PhD, University of Texas Medical School

Xin Zhang, MD, PhD, Ochsner Clinic Foundation

Wenxin Zheng, MD, University of Arizona

Weixiong Zhong, MD, PhD , University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ming Zhou , MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic

Xiong-Wei Zhu, PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Lawrence Zukerberg, MD, Harvard Medical School

Section Editors

Founding Editorial Board

Charles Alpers, MD, Department of Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Mahul B. Amin, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sanford H Barsky, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus,OH, USA
Robert E. Brown, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
Janet M. Bruner, MD, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
James M. Crawford, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, North Shore University Hospital (NSUH), Hempstead, NY, USA
Dennis W. Dickson, MD, Department of Pathology and Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Masashi Fukayama, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology & Diagnostic Pathology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
John Goldblum, MD, Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Prabodh K. Gupta, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Anwar Ul Haque, M D, Department of Pathology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
John Hardy, PhD, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Michael N . Hart, M D, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, USA
Richard G. Hegele, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jay L. Hess , MD , PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Peter E. Jensen, MD, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Daniel M. Knowles, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
Virginia A. LiVolsi, MD, Department of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
James S. Malter, MD, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, USA
Cynthia C. Morton, PhD, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ho-keung NG, MD, Department of Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Medicine, Hong Kong, China
Tristram G. Parslow, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
George Perry, PhD, College of Life Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Carlos A. Rubio, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, Karolinska Institute and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Philippe J. Sansonetti, MD , Unité de pathogénie microbienne moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Steven L. Spitalnik, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, USA
Sharon W Weiss, MD, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Dani S. Zander, MD,Department of Pathology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

Jinsong Liu, MD, PhD
(OB-GYN Pathology)
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Jonathan Melamed, MD,
(GU Pathology)
New York University

Xianfeng Frank Zhao, MD, PhD,
(Hematopathology)
University of Maryland

Lucian R. Chirieac, MD
(Pulmonary Pathology)
Harvard Medical School