About the Authors

Hongjuan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

John T. Leppert

Affiliations Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Donna M. Peehl

dpeehl@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DP. Performed the experiments: HZ. Analyzed the data: HZ JL. Wrote the paper: HZ DP.