About the Authors

Rong Zhu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Yongtao Yang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Yin Tian

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Jianying Bai

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Xin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Xiaohuan Li

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Zhihong Peng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Yonghong He

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Lei Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Qiong Pan

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Dianchun Fang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Wensheng Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Chen Qian

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Xiuwu Bian

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Rongquan Wang

rongquanw@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RW. Performed the experiments: RZ YY YT JB. Analyzed the data: XZ XL ZP QP YH LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XB CQ. Wrote the paper: RW. Critical revision of the manuscript: WC. Technical support: DF.