About the Authors

Chengfu Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengfu Xu, Chaohui Yu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Chaohui Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chengfu Xu, Chaohui Yu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Lei Xu

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Gastroenterology, Ningbo No. 1 Hospital, Ningbo, China

Min Miao

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Ningbo No. 1 Hospital, Ningbo, China

Youming Li

xiaofu@zju.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL. Performed the experiments: CX CY LX MM. Analyzed the data: CX CY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LX MM. Wrote the paper: CX CY.