About the Authors

Song Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Zhang, Yang Yang, Zhenxing Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Gastroenterology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Yang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Zhang, Yang Yang, Zhenxing Liang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Zhenxing Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Song Zhang, Yang Yang, Zhenxing Liang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Weixun Duan

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Jian Yang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Juanjuan Yan

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Ning Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Wenqiang Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Gastroenterology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Meiling Ding

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Gastroenterology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Yongzhan Nie

nieyongzhan210@126.com (YN); zhenxiaojin210@126.com (ZJ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Gastroenterology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Zhenxiao Jin

nieyongzhan210@126.com (YN); zhenxiaojin210@126.com (ZJ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an City, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-ZN Z-XJ. Performed the experiments: SZ YY Z-XL JY NW. Analyzed the data: W-XD J-JY W-QF M-LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-ZN Z-XJ. Wrote the paper: SZ YY.