About the Authors

Wu-Gang Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Wu-Gang Hou, Wen-Bo Ai, Xiao-Guang Bai

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Wen-Bo Ai

Contributed equally to this work with: Wu-Gang Hou, Wen-Bo Ai, Xiao-Guang Bai

Affiliation Department of Health Service, School of Preventive Medicine, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Xiao-Guang Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Wu-Gang Hou, Wen-Bo Ai, Xiao-Guang Bai

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Hai-Long Dong

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Zhen Li

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Yuan-Qiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Li-Ze Xiong

mzkxlz@126.com

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH YZ LX. Performed the experiments: WH WA XB. Analyzed the data: WH WA XB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HD ZL. Wrote the paper: WH WA.