About the Authors

Yan Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Shi, Yingyi Wang, Wenkang Luan, Ping Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yingyi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Shi, Yingyi Wang, Wenkang Luan, Ping Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wenkang Luan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Shi, Yingyi Wang, Wenkang Luan, Ping Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Shi, Yingyi Wang, Wenkang Luan, Ping Wang

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Tao Tao

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Surgical Research Center, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Junxia Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jin Qian

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Neurosurgery, People's hospital of Xuancheng city, Anhui, China

Ning Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yongping You

YYPL9@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS JXZ. Performed the experiments: YS YYW WKL. Analyzed the data: WKL JQ PW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL PW. Wrote the paper: YS JXZ TT. Conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination: YPY.