About the Authors

Jing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Lina Liang

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Lina Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Lina Liang

Affiliation College (Institute) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Libin Zhan

libinzhan@hotmail.com

Affiliations The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China, College (Institute) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Yan Zhou

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Luping Zheng

Affiliation College (Institute) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Xiaoxin Sun

Affiliation College (Institute) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Jin Gong

Affiliation Anatomy department of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Hua Sui

Affiliation College (Institute) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Rujiao Jiang

Affiliation College (Institute) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Fuliang Zhang

Affiliation Public Health department of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Lin Zhang

Affiliation College (Institute) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: L. Zhan. Performed the experiments: JC LL YZ L. Zheng XS JG. Analyzed the data: JC LL L. Zhan. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS RJ FZ L. Zhang. Wrote the paper: JC.