About the Authors

Lei Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Xu, Chengfu Xu

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

Chengfu Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Xu, Chengfu Xu

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

Chaohui Yu

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

Min Miao

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Zhenhai Lianhua Hospital, Ningbo, China

Xuequn Zhang

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

Zhongwei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Zhenhai Lianhua Hospital, Ningbo, China

Xiaoyun Ding

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

Youming Li

xulei22@163.com

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: LX CX CY MM XZ ZZ XD YL. Analyzed the data: LX CX. Wrote the paper: LX CX.