About the Authors

Chen Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Yang, Shun-Nan Ge, Jia-Rui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Shun-Nan Ge

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Yang, Shun-Nan Ge, Jia-Rui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Jia-Rui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Yang, Shun-Nan Ge, Jia-Rui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Lei Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Zhi-Qiang Yan

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Urumqi General Hospital of Lanzhou Military Command, Urumqi, People’s Republic of China

Li-Jun Heng

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Tian-Zhi Zhao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Wei-Xin Li

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Dong Jia

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Jun-Ling Zhu

tdgguodong@163.com (GDG); zhujl65@fmmu.edu.cn (JLZ)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Guo-Dong Gao

tdgguodong@163.com (GDG); zhujl65@fmmu.edu.cn (JLZ)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CY SNG JRZ GDG JLZ. Performed the experiments: CY LC ZQY LJH TZZ WXL DJ. Analyzed the data: CY SNG JRZ LC ZQY LJH TZZ WXL DJ GDG JLZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CY SNG JRZ LC ZQY LJH. Wrote the paper: CY SNG JRZ GDG JLZ.