About the Authors

Ying Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Shi, Xiantao Xu, Yan Tan

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiantao Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Shi, Xiantao Xu, Yan Tan

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yan Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Shi, Xiantao Xu, Yan Tan

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Shan Mao

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Surong Fang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wei Gu

sykxss@163.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WG YS. Performed the experiments: XX YT SF SM. Analyzed the data: YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS WG. Wrote the paper: YS WG.